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Friday, May 02, 2008
Bar Stool Economics
55 comments:
Bravo my good man. Around here, however, the story sounds better if the 10 met each night to by crack or meth, but beer works as well.ReplyDelete
Reminds me of the story everyone's heard about the daughter home from college. She's proud of her grades, has worked hard, and has joined all the typical groups on campus. (Save whales, Darfur, penguins, polar bears, elk, etc.). But she tells her dad her roomate has been goofing off, drinking, and making C's and D's. Her dad asks if she has been to the dean to discuss this. "Why?" his daughter asks. "So you can transfer some of your grades to her, so you can both be equal with B's. "Why would I want to do that? I worked hard for those grades."
"Welcome to the Republican party, dear." (At least the old Republican party, not these spineless twerps who are Republican by name only.)
I just understood a few things better. Thanks!ReplyDelete
SC: Nice!
lofty and 'cat,ReplyDelete
you guys are the worst stereotypical conservative/libertarians i've ever seen. do you not appreciate, kind sirs, that you two, and i happen to know you are of Dutch extraction, are personally responsible for hundreds of years of oppresion of 'inferior' races? that you are personally responsible for putting the less fortunate in the position of helplessness that they are in? that's why we NEED the government to step in and level the playing field.
only when everyone in this country is equally unable to get what they need and want will things be fair. then we can start afresh. until that time you should quit complaining about having to support, not just yourselves and your family, but about twenty other less fortunate folks by paying your taxes (which should be higher if anything) and giving away care.
i can't believe you can't understand this. after all, i know you were both born into wealth and were given favorable admissions to colleges and medical school and that you didn't have to work hard there or in residency because of your dutchness.
personally, i hate the dutch. the wooden shoes, the windmilss, all of that racist crap. if you persist in this delusion of yours i will be forced to call in the reverend al and the aclu. if i were you i would STFU right now and send those checks in to the government and be thankful you are allowed to keep any of it.
'cat, i have already called the IRS to tell them of your plan to move to a lower tax bracket and it will not be allowed. after all, who then will fund medical care for illegals?
you guys make me sick with your complaining. damned dutch m-f'ers. go whittle some shoes or something.
You guys crack me up. Lofty, that was probably the best explanation I've ever heard of it.ReplyDelete
I totally get why my mom was so pissed when I'd get a $3000 child tax credit when my husband was a grad student making almost nothing, and she got a big fat nothing.
Wow. Uhmmm...I'm sorry??ReplyDelete
Good luck to S. Cat, from the poster girl for downward mobility. It was completely worth it, and I get money BACK now.ReplyDelete
And what's with the Dutch bashing, 911? They were probably religious refugees who came to this country full of hopes and dreams and organized crime connections. Da? Or they may have needed a quiet place to settle with their nine wives and fifty children in prairie dresses, like my relatives.
Did his Dutch jokes really offend you?
Ya'll can make fun of my Swissness and ancestry and such. I like totally missed out on that whole neutrality thing.
Hell yes I was offended! And I'm not even Dutch. 'You people' are such Dutchists. I am going to contact the DCLU immediately...you people are going down.ReplyDelete
They say as soon as you make money you go conservative.ReplyDelete
Keep this in mind, though. I'm not sure how the rich make out in places like Denmark, but if I were Danish and I were smart enough to pass my med school tests, school would be paid for (plus housing while I went to school) and I would have zero debt coming out, making a reduction in my income even by half much more palatable than the situation now, where I can make lots of money but I have tremendous debt to pay off, my health care is really expensive even if I'm working, and I'm not living in the Scandinavian utopia bestowed upon me by good clean living and liberal amounts of aquavit.
And for CEOs, paying taxes of even 60% on the 30 million a year they get even if they totally suck at their job and cause their own company to lose value thereby sacking tons of poor saps beneath them who worked their way through college with two jobs after emigrating from the midwest to the promised land of Wall Street seems like a good deal considering they'll still have 12 million left at the end for a year's worth of shoddy work.
Agreed, however, that docs and other upper middle class hardworking people get totally shafted. So I'll probably vote republican in the end anyway since there's, like, 0% chance of the US turning into Scandinavia, which seems to be the only place in the world that can pull off their model. I'll vote republican because I'll get tired of paying my mortgage while others walk away, tired of working for my paycheck while the drug-seeker in room 12 gets theirs for nothing with subsidized dilaudid to boot, and tired of sending my kids to public community colleges while CEO's kids and second-generation immigrants populate the Ivy Leagues.
Ah, the joys of seeing my jaded future coming, of savoring the last gasps of my populist leanings as they are asphyxiated by the airway edema of modern american life.
*snort* Dutchists. *snort*ReplyDelete
I'm going to tell you a long and protracted random story. You'll probably be dumber after reading it.
Of course because it's an inside joke, it's only funny to my husband and I, but I'll tell you why I giggle every time. I had this retarded friend in high school who got a German Shepherd. He names it what sounded like douche. I did a double take and asked him why he named it that. He said because that's how you pronounce "German" in German. I was like "no you moron, it's Deutch. Anyone who is familiar with German knows it's pronounced like Doitch, not douche, but my husband and I have been laughing about it ever since.
So when my husband is irritated, and there are kids around, he just refers to whomever the current jackass is as a "bag of Germans." It lightens the mood and makes me laugh every time.
Amy: The hardest part of transitioning from being an attorney to teaching kindergarten is remembering not to swear. No slips, I'm proud to say.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:16 PM, May 02, 2008
Don't even get me started on the fucking Belgians...ReplyDelete
Lofty, succinct and well explained: was that, like, chinese math or something that you were using?
The Scandanavians can go fuck themselves. These pompous dickwads are so proud of their great socialist systems while being the most homogeneous, xenophobic, suicidal, sun-deprived, soft-core porn making, blond-pubed freaks. I'm soooo impressed you have such a managable population of clone robots the size of northern Rhode Island. The best thing they ever made was ABBA. And they suck.
ETOTHEIPI - you fricking kill me man. Laughing my ass off. You are a witty girl, er, young boy. Yes, by the way, I DID use a counting board and a set of counting rods called chousuan to illustrate my point. Made popular in the Han dynasty.ReplyDelete
I love this post, it clearly explains it all. And then the comments are making me laugh like crazy. This is why I love this site. You get the informative interesting posts (most of the time) and then the comments are always amusing. You guys are awesome!ReplyDelete
Amy-you totally beat me at the random comment today...I was dealing with lawyers again (everything is going well...I'll update when I know anything concrete). I am feeling much better...when the lawyer turns off the tape recorder and yells out "are you kidding me???" because she finds the whole thing so ridiculous, it tends to calm a person down.
So, RadGirl..since you like the blog so much and we like you so much, which posts are not interesting? What is most interesting to y'all?ReplyDelete
yeah radgirl and fans,ReplyDelete
who is the best (me) and is there someone who is consistently bad (lofty and etotheipi). i have my own opinion but i'm going to keep it to myself.
- Dr. Wannabe1:11 PM, May 02, 2008
You forgot the part where the first four men were given an "earned" amount to drink the beer, clearly this is hard work and they should be rewarded.ReplyDelete
So far my favorite was the one about me. Only kidding but that was pretty cool.ReplyDelete
I really like the ones that give me a glimpse into what really goes on (throckmorton was probably my favorite because how in the world would I ever have learned that anywhere else?) and make me laugh too. I think all of you are funny/write good posts. I don't think there has been anything I didn't like, although some of the more technical ones leave me with no idea what to comment...I read every post though and find them all fascinating.
I sound like a suck-up so I will stop now. But I swear this is all true (to the best of my knowledge...sorry, leftover from the lawyer yesterday and this morning I think).
Hey, also, where has erdoc85 been lately?ReplyDelete
911 for president, Frank for JanetReplyDelete
Reno's cabana boy, Etotheipi to ghost write Hillary's biography and Lofty for Fed Reserve board.
I just want to know which one of you is short fat and bald.ReplyDelete
Just kidding.
Seriously though. I wanna play the 10 statement game where 9 of these things are true and 1 is false game. Ya'll have got to tell us something about yourselves besides the obvious tall handsome, and intelligent family men with razor wit, who coincidently happen to be very well endowed? (Did I get all of that right?)
Actually I am always interested in the cases you come across and the human interactions. I used to work in a hosptial lab, and I loved it! (Until the short staffed us so bad that I wanted to jump off the 7th floor.) I majored in zoology with an entomoloy emphasis and what I loved about it is the taxonomy. So you can see what really sucks me into medicine is the mystery, the diagnosis, the classification, and of course the occasional adrenaline.
Yeah, what's with the free riders? They have get to use the MDOD Lear jet, but they have no posting responsibilities. I don't think Frank is on vacation, he's in the witness protection program as a snitch for Debbie PeelReplyDelete
Amy-you and Radgirl have to do that on your blogs--I went first.And it's true that I ran over myself with my own car.ReplyDelete
"he's in the witness protection program as a snitch for Debbie Peel"ReplyDelete
OMG! I'm dying here. Do you think DP sits at home and grinds her teeth while plotting her revenge on you HIPPA violaters?
Let's be honest here...ever since my 'Politically-Incorrect Hockey Mom' initial post, I have ruled this blog. Yes, by the way, I am handsome, fit, sexy, well-endowed, and can touch my ears with my nose (insert cat meow sound here). 911DOC, you're yesterday's news. I am this blog's Jessica Alba to your Brittany Spears. Wait, is that good? OK, since you are my mentor and you invited me along on this wonderful ride, I do have to admit you are good 911. I...I...I love you. I AM the best-looking, however, by far.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:31 PM, May 02, 2008
911, Lofty and Cat are much more handsome, well-adjusted and intelligent than me. But my dong is like a knee-high tube sock stuffed full of ham salad and wrapped in a fruit roll-up. Jumping jacks are dangerous to my health. It's like an obese baby's arm, disarticulated at the shoulder, and the hand replaced by a giant snow-globe.ReplyDelete
You get the picture.
WTF etotheipi? i've seen that thing and it's like a pencil eraser. you have body dysmorphism. do you binge and purge too? do you have loss of enamel on your front teeth and calluses on your posterior mcp joints?ReplyDelete
See now, Etotheipi, I knew that was you...I just can't quite imagine 911 writing that post.ReplyDelete
What color is the sky in your world, Etotheipi?ReplyDelete
Do you call it your "precious"? I"m sure nobody else does...ReplyDelete
I am by far the most handsome. Also, I am half black, 1/4 Irish, and 1/4 Philipino, with the bottom half being the black half.ReplyDelete
Like some kind of weird centaur?ReplyDelete
Yeah, like a centaur. In fact I am and ungulate. The hospital must order special gloves.ReplyDelete
"But my dong is like a knee-high tube sock stuffed full of ham salad and wrapped in a fruit roll-up. Jumping jacks are dangerous to my health. It's like an obese baby's arm, disarticulated at the shoulder, and the hand replaced by a giant snow-globe."ReplyDelete
You've been sniffing the formalin again haven't you Tripod.
Wait a minute S-Cat. Special gloves? For the black part? And I must know since you're an ungulate, do you have camel toes?ReplyDelete
Congratulations, Dr. Cat: You are the first person to make me look up a word in the dictionary in a long, long time. You've made me a better person and I'm going to remember you in a client's will.ReplyDelete
See, I can't type with hooves. I an AN ungulate. hee haw. Chicks dig it. We can ride each other, no sexual overtones or inuendos intended.ReplyDelete
I did it again. I will dictate all further comments to my assistant. I AM an ungulate. OOps. I just dropped a patty in room 5. Housekeeping is going to love that one.ReplyDelete
There's actually a subset of the BDSM community that's into something called "pony play", where one person dresses up in horsey gear, and the other person, well, you know...ReplyDelete
I can't stress enough that this arcane perversion trivia does NOT come from my own experience--it's straight from HBO. I couldn't look away.
- Anonymous11:25 PM, May 02, 2008
S Cat: For being an ungulate, I must know: are you an odd-toed perissodactyl or an even-toed artiodactyl???ReplyDelete
...and I can never remember: is it "hung like a horse and smart as Einstein" or "smart as a horse and hung like Einstein"??
- Anonymous7:46 AM, May 03, 2008
Jeez,go away for a few days and everyones talkin about bondage and bestiality. Israel is great, will be back monday. As for the "pony play" I saw that episode Devorrah, it was from "Entourage".ReplyDelete
Perissodactyl, and it's hung like a horse and smart as Ben Stein.ReplyDelete
Hi Frank! You shouldn't be typing words like "bestiality" in the holy land. Actually, it was "Real Sex", not "Entourage", because I have very high standards for my late night TV viewing, obviously.ReplyDelete
911: And why were looking at Etotheipi's Precious anyway?ReplyDelete
COMMENT MODERATION NOW ENABLED. SORRY. A SICK SOUL FORCED THIS UPON US. HOPEFULLY, WE CAN TAKE THIS DOWN SOON.ReplyDelete
Wait, are you talking about etotheipi? I like him, he's funny!
i looked at it once. it was like that scene from 'pulp fiction' with the trunk in the dungeon and the red, rubber ball etc... i managed to get out and i never went back. ok, once i went back. well, a lot of times really.
Now that I know that, how can I ever function as a kindergarten teacher again, thinking about you in a threesome with Kermit and Dr. Strangelove.ReplyDelete
Did none of you bother to check what tax (b)racket you'd be in when you started a productive career after you graduated? C'mon. You went to med school to make money. Unfortunately you forgot to include the looters in your calculations.ReplyDelete
I inadvertently found myself in the same tax (b)racket as you guys in the mid 90's. My fed tax hit alone the last year I did computer security was $75K. So. I quit. Now I'm a total luser (read tax deduction) breeding more tax deductions. 3 so far. BTW, thanks for the incentive check, we'll get $2100 for breathing air this year. Hopefully add another tax deduction sometime in '09.
I read Atlas Shrugged about 10 years too late though. I financed the stupid system way too long.
Now, when are you producers gonna buy me an SUV. I really need one for my tribe.
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with all due respect you couldn't be more wrong.
none of us on this blog went into medicine for the money.
if you read any number of posts here you will understand that for the 4 years of medical school and at least three years of residency (that any doctor has to do and are closer to torture than any thing you can imagine outside of, well, torture) you are actually going into debt.
residents in medicine make an average of about 7$ an hour when you figure in the up to 120 hour work weeks, and when you add this on top to 150k of debt for medical school it is flat out stupid to go into medicine for 'money'.
the highest paid doctors are orthopedic surgeons and neruosurgeons and they do make a lot of money. enough, in fact, that after they finish their residencies at about age 37 they can get themselves out of debt within a few years.
by the time they are forty plus they can start livin' large except for the sleep deprivation and mandated free care. nothin' like getting called in to the OR at 3am to fix a drunk driver's broken femur.
compare this with working for UPS out of high school and the AVERAGE doctor out-earns him right at about the time the UPS driver is retiring with a pension.
so no, unless you are stupid, you do not go into medicine for money.
it takes a lot more than a desire for money to commit to this. almost all of us chose this to do something that matters and to help people while earning a comfortable living. almost all of us now realize we were incredibly naive.
- Anonymous10:19 AM, May 06, 2008
I made about $22,000 during my Intern year of July 88-July 89. I wasn't quite the workaholic alot of interns are but averaged around 90 hours a week. Not counting the 10 days vacation, 3 day medical conference, and 1 day to take part 3 of the boards, I made about $5/hr. Not bad in 1988, especially compared to the $5000 I made the year before thanks to my Navy scholarship.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:02 AM, May 06, 2008
First year in the Navy I made around $42,000. Figuring a 36 hour week, and 4 weeks vacation, comes to about $24/hr. If you took a military residency you didn't get the $10,000 annual Doctor bonus until you finished training.ReplyDelete
please clarify for me and my readers. i imagine you are talking about your first year as a GMO of Flight Surgeon with the Navy and not your internship or residency?
I have a friend who made 50K during his residency at the U of Arizona. That was about 2 years ago though.ReplyDelete
It's not the salaries, it's the crushing amount of debt. I may make a fair amount, but I already own a really nice second mortgage on my loans.ReplyDelete
Docs can be upper middle class pretty comfortably, but they sure aren't buying golden shower curtains.


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Jess requested a tutorial on how I apply my blush for a more natural and softer look, so I did a quick video on it since it's probably easier to get my point across instead of pictures. ***For reference, I am not a fan of doing videos, I get too nervous and end up sounding like a complete putz, LOL. So be easy on me haha. And yes that is an Island Pacific box behind me that my grandma gave me to help me pack some stuff (as the BF and I are preparing to get our own digs so im starting to pack up the junk I am not using now). It's just hilarious it's there in the background, gotta love grandma. :)
I will be posting all my videos on Vimeo from now on simply because the quality of the video is phenomenal, and there are zero haters on Vimeo which I love. It's $60 bucks a year for the premium service which is well worth it to me if that means cutting out the immature people and the many content-stealing on YouTube and having awesome quality videos. I may still add it also on YouTube for my subscribers, but for now I will be posting on Vimeo solely.
Also, for those of you who asked about the Cosme Land store, it looks like it is Ohayo minus most of the houseware stuff, so it's mostly and mainly beauty products that were in Ohayo, including the beloved Mandom makeup remover! :)
Here are a few "work-friendly" pics to illustrate the tutorial, I also used the stippling brush from PurelyCosmetics.com:
And this is just another pink & purple FOTD, I have done a very similar look before but I made it more vibrant by using MakeUp For Ever's bright pink eyeshadow #9 and MAC lipstick in "Lavender Whip".
What I used:
- Purely Cosmetics Oil Absorb Powder & Silk Primer Powder (review coming soon!)
- MAC Studio Sculpt Concealer in NC30
- Purely Cosmetics Mineral Foundation in "Olive Beige"
- NYX Blush in "Pinky"
- MAC paint pot in "Girl Friendly" as base
- MAC e/s in "Romping"(on top of PP)
- MUFE e/s #9 (over romping)
- MAC e/s in "Nocturnelle" and "Satellite Dreams" on outer-V and contour
- MAC e/s in "Shadowy Lady" on outer-v
- MAC e/s in "Ricepaper" as highlight
- MAC Fluidline in "Blacktrack"
- Ardell falsies (forgot the #)
- L'Oreal Telescopic Mascara
- Urban Decay eye pencil in "Lust" on lower lashline
- MAC l/s in "Lavender Whip"
- MAC Dazzleglass in "Funtabulous"
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Video & Pink and Purple FOTD
28 comments
- Jo said...
your make up is always so flawless vanessa! and i'm glad you'll be posting more videos up in the future :)
- March 10, 2009 at 2:00 AM
- Sophie said...
You look so pretty! I love your nails :)
- March 10, 2009 at 2:06 AM
- Iyah said...
You are sooo good at blending! & Lavender whip looks absolutely gorgeous on you! :h: sooo pretty! <3
Are you going to IMATS? I wish I can get a PRo card there.. I heard something like that happend before like they didnt need documentations or something,..
- March 10, 2009 at 2:10 AM
- Iyah said...
Yay!! I hope they will do it again this year. I would be the happiest!! hahah! I cannot wait for the POW WOW Tres :p
- March 10, 2009 at 2:29 AM
- Paint Me Gorgeous said...
omg you're so gorgeous! i'm just getting the hang of applying blush- i don't wear it often ><
- March 10, 2009 at 4:14 AM
- Shen said...
i agree. Your blush application looks so natural.. :) love it! will it keep it your pointers. :)
- March 10, 2009 at 6:25 AM
- Shelly said...
you were great in the video! i dont know why you dont like doing them! and LOVE the eye makeup its super pretty!
- March 10, 2009 at 6:29 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
so pretty sis!
- March 10, 2009 at 7:33 AM
- Anonymous said...
oohh I love your nails! May I know what colour is that? I'm guessing its China Glaze X)
- March 10, 2009 at 8:14 AM
- FAB_Ladee said...
adorable look...where did u get that stippling brush???
- March 10, 2009 at 8:34 AM
- Vanessa said...
Hi Linni! It IS China Glaze (love it!), it's the color "Coconut Kiss". :)
Fab_Ladee- I got the stippling brush from the awesome Robyn over at PurelyCosmetics.com
- March 10, 2009 at 8:45 AM
- Jerah197 said...
pinks and purple look amazing on you hun!! keep it up :)
- March 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM
- GS said...
You have such a nice voice!
- March 10, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- Jéssy said...
I love your makeup! You do amazing combinations! And his skin is very uniform
Like much of their enamel and lipgloss <3 haha
purelycosmetics the brushes are really good! .. our prada's are very bad .. = /
What brand of brushes are your favorite vanessa?
- March 10, 2009 at 10:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
the blush looked so pink in the pan but so nice on you!!
- March 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM
- Miss Yaya said...
love the colors!
- March 10, 2009 at 11:00 AM
- FuN and MakeUp said...
nessa!! finally!! i been waitin for this! thank you soo much!! and no u do not sound weird or nervouse when u talk! its actually adorable.. ur good at it =) now let me see if i can try to do this... i see that u tap a bit.. no wonder! i dab that in so much and i throw it on my face! i should be gentle next time... Hahaha hopefully itll work out for me... love the EOTD toooo gorgeous purple & pink! XOXO
- March 10, 2009 at 11:09 AM
- izumi said...
you vids are great, i don't know what you're talking about :) i've totally been applying blush to my entire cheek (but it's a very subtle peach.... aahh! no justifications) time to change that up. thanks for the tips!
- March 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM
- FabDiva20 said...
Your video is awesome! I should use a stippling brush more often to apply my blush than to use a regular blush brush. I'm definately going to get the 109 and the 187 brushes from MAC.
- March 10, 2009 at 1:29 PM
- Celly<3 said...
Your lips are awesome.
Wish I had gotten lavender whip while it was still available.
- March 10, 2009 at 1:47 PM
- Emeria said...
i looove vimeo..too bad you're limited to only 500 mb if you don't get the premium..i think once i have the funds i'll subscribe.. thats why i have to use youtube..not a huge fan though for obvious reasons..what video editing program do you use?
you look absolutely gorgeous by the way!!! i usually use a stippling with cream blushes..i'm gunna try your method out even with regular blush..it looks super natural
- March 10, 2009 at 1:57 PM
- Robyn @ Purely Cosmetics said...
I don't know why you don't like doing vids - I'd be stuttering and umming all through it!
Just a side note on the stippler brush - you can also use it to dot on your blush for an airbrushed look. This is my absolute favorite brush for applying blush (this, coming from a Certified Brush Whore) because it's so easy to use. I call it my "blush brush for retards" (no offense intended to anyone; I'm the retard) :)
- March 10, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- loveva said...
LOVE IT! :D and YUP, GOTTA LOVE THE GRAMS :P
- March 10, 2009 at 5:35 PM
- Sofee said...
every look is better than the last...u do a great great job :D
- March 10, 2009 at 6:14 PM
- M said...
the colors are so vibrant and pretty! love it!
- March 10, 2009 at 8:48 PM
- Meya said...
love the makeup!
- March 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM
- KittyMeow said...
Vimeo is awesome isn't it? So crystal clear. Looooove the pink and purple too :-)
- March 11, 2009 at 12:57 AM
- ♡ Nic Nic ♡ said...
I always use my stippling brush to apply blush too :D
- March 12, 2009 at 9:23 AM

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One of the steps in this process is dealing with Conflicts within your genealogy database.
Today was one of those days to deal with a couple of conflicts. The first was to review and adjust information on two people. James McHenry Howard and McHenry Howard. Both lived in close proximity to the other but there were two separate households. The good news is that the households stayed together, if they moved at all. Both were born about 1838 or 1839, but that might have been a census record issue.
The key difference was McHenry Howard occupation was a Lawyer while James McHenry Howard was a physician. Their fathers were of similar ages, and I could connect McHenry's father back to a long Howard Line. Couldn't connect James McHenry Howards father back nor could I connect him to McHenry's father.
Another "conflict" was a brother of McHenry Howard's father Charles. It has been listed as James. James was also James McHenry Howard's father.
It was not clear that these two James were the same person, but could not make any connection.
I took a side step a minute to see what I may have missed. Certainly a City Directory would have shown the Doctor and the Lawyer somewhere. However, I didn't find a good directory for the timeframe. I happened to do that search on Genealogy Bank. That's when I found an obituary. The Obituary was for a Elizabeth Phoebe Key Howard. Key, as in Francis Scott Key. Elizabeth Phoebe Key Howard was the oldest daughter of Frances Scott Key. It listed the pallbearers, which included Messers, William R. Howard, Dr. James McHenry Howard, Edward Lloyd Key, Dr. Henry J Key, W. George Weld, Wilson Cary McHenry, Richard H. Pose, and G.T. Beaureguard Howard, all of whom are family connections of Mrs. Howard.
Dr. James McHenry was not a son of Mrs. Howard, William R. Howard WAS a brother of McHenry Howard.
Reviewing the Census Records and how I had recorded the relationships I had found, I resolved the two James Howards, as the same person, making James McHenry Howard's Father, the Brother of McHenry Howard's Father.
Lesson Learned: The Obituary pointed the way "all whom are family connections of Mrs. Howard to a review of the relationships established in the Census Records. The two families were buried in separate cemeteries but they lived in the same neighborhood. The headstones firmed but the relationships.
A bonus: This puts David Ridgely Howard into my Family Tree.


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This article is intended to show how people will conform to peer pressure against their own convictions and in what conditions. It is relevant to the influence exerted in the church community among its members. There is significant pressure in the church to prevent the expression of doubt or critical questioning of the properties of the religion. People would rather conform than go against the group. Since people are evolutionarily tuned to be social animals, the perceived benefit of belonging to the group should outweigh the benefit of dissension. I am grateful to Matthew, one of our readers, for submitting this and his kind sentiment. Click on the Link above to show a short video documentary on them. Click on the Link below to read a short summary from Wikipedia.
From Wikipedia
Solomon Asch "became famous in the 1950s, following experiments which showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect.
The way he did this was through an experiment in which participants were shown a card with a line on it, followed by another card with 3 lines on it labeled a, b, and c. The participants were then asked to say which line matched the line on the first card. At first, the subject would feel very at ease in the experiment, as he and the other participants gave the obvious answer. Shortly after, the "participants" in front of the subject would start all giving the same wrong answer. Solomon Asch thought that the majority of people would not conform to something obviously wrong, but the results showed that an alarming number of participants gave the wrong answer. See Asch Conformity Experiments"
Debunking Christianity
The Role of Persuasion and Cognitive Bias In Your Church
The Role of Persuasion in the Question of The Holy Spirit
Suspension of Disbelief
All Lee's Persuasion Articles
Solomon Asch
Asch Conformity Experiments
Asch Conformity Experiments Video from YouTube


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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced the creation of a new defense agency charged with merging the multiple divisions currently responsible for finding and identifying the more than 80,000 members missing from past conflicts. A five-month investigation by NPR and the independent news agency ProPublica had found the U.S. recovery effort to be slow, inefficient and stymied by outdated methods.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is overhauling of the Pentagon's so-called accounting community. Those are the agencies in charge of finding, identifying, and returning the remains of servicemen and women lost in past wars. Right now, the number of those missing stands at 83,000. NPR's Kelly McEvers spent five months investigating these agencies with the independent news organization ProPublica. She found the agencies to be slow and inefficient. And Kelly McEvers joins us now to talk about it. Hi.
KELLY MCEVERS, BYLINE: Hi.
SIEGEL: Does this new reorganization tackle the problems that you addressed in your reporting?
MCEVERS: So far, it's looking like it does. You know, one thing we found were a lot of layers of bureaucracy. I remember seeing months and months of memos back and forth from one agency to another, basically memos about memos. And what Hagel said is the effort will now be streamlined into one place and led by one leader rather than spread out among myriad different agencies across the country.
SIEGEL: One of the most notable things your investigation found had to do with the use of DNA. You reported that the agencies seemed reluctant to use it as the lead identification tool. Will that change?
MCEVERS: Well, what we found is that these agencies now use a process aimed not at just identifying the remains of a serviceman who died in a past war, but actually returning, shall we say, as much of that serviceman as possible. So that means it's a system where you measure bones and you compare dental records to narrow down who you think that person is and then you use DNA to verify your assumption.
The so-called DNA-led method that's now used by, you know, missing persons labs around the world - the 9/11 cases, Bosnia, Argentina - that's a system where you build a database of the family's DNA. So you say, to all you Americans who have missing soldiers out there, we want your DNA. Then you test the remains of the serviceman you have and you match it against this family database and you find matches.
So today, I asked Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Lumpkin, who's spearheading this Pentagon effort, if the DNA-led system is a system they're looking to emulate, and he said, simply, yes.
SIEGEL: Now the agencies have also had an aversion to exhuming the remains of unknown soldiers and testing them for DNA. Might that change as well?
MCEVERS: It's looking like it might as well. You know, there are nearly 10,000 of these so-called unknown soldiers buried all over the world, in U.S. cemeteries in Europe and Asia. The thinking is that these graves could be respectfully exhumed. Their DNA could be tested against that family sample and many of these servicemen could be identified. I asked Lumpkin if this was something they were considering doing and, again, he said yes.
SIEGEL: Now, Secretary Hagel also talked about outsourcing some of this work. How would that happen?
MCEVERS: You know, Robert, there are a lot of people out there who are still looking for their lost relatives. We're talking about tens of thousands of families who still don't have answers. Many of them are second and third-generation relatives of servicemen who died as far back as World War II. These people have gotten really good at searching for crash sites, doing genealogy.
So, Lumpkin said the government would do much better if it actually worked with these people rather than keeping them out of the process, as it has in the past. But there's also a sense that some of this DNA work we're talking about could be farmed out, too, to the universities and the missing persons labs who already have the expertise to do it.
SIEGEL: And what would that mean for the existing agencies?
MCEVERS: Well, I mean, Lumpkin said nobody is really going to get fired just yet, but he did say this is a fundamental change. The agencies, as we knew them, will cease to exist. So, I mean, it is just the beginning of the process. I think we're going to know more about it in the coming weeks.
SIEGEL: OK. Kelly, thank you.
MCEVERS: You're welcome.
SIEGEL: That's NPR's Kelly McEvers. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Leslie Keno, a leading authority on American furniture best known for his appraisals on the PBS television series "Antiques Roadshow," shared his infectious enthusiasm for his subject and the glow of his television fame with a large audience in the Architecture Building auditorium on April 5.
Keno was the final speaker in the A. Alfred Taubman Lecture Series that began in September 2010. He is a personal friend of Lawrence Tech's leading benefactor, having once worked with him at Sotheby's in New York City. Taubman was in the audience for Keno's lecture.
Keno's topic was "Hidden Treasures: Searching for Masterpieces of American Furniture," which is also the title of the book that he co-authored with his twin brother Leigh and Joan Barzilay Freund.
He explained that his love for antiques began while he and his twin brother were growing up in the rural New York town of Mohawk. Together they unearthed 19th century artifacts from long-abandoned homesteads and then started to buy and sell antiques as teenagers.
Keno related how he decided to attend Williams College in Massachusetts after seeing the early American antique furniture in the office of admissions. He became well versed in the work of America's best furniture makers, and his childhood hobby developed into a passion for finding the best examples of early American craftsmanship and artistry.
Keno joined Sotheby's as a cataloguer in 1980, was appointed director of the American Furniture and Decorative Arts Department in 1983, and is now a senior vice president. He has been directly responsible for numerous record-breaking sales of Americana, and he told the audience how he landed some of his biggest auction sales.
The Keno brothers gained fame for their expertise and theatrical flair as furniture appraisers on "Antiques Roadshow." They have also hosted the public television series "Find!" and the internet show "Collect This!" on MSN's Tech & Gadgets guide site.
In 2005, both were awarded the National Humanities Medal, and in 2008 they joined First Lady Laura Bush on a tour of the White House that was televised on the History Channel.