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I have only glossed the surface in reading about Bush's NSA snooping scandal, which is looking less like a scandal and more like a low level debate about accountability of intelligence gathering during wartime.
However, in reading this 60 minutes transcript from February of 2000 regarding the subject (and, as Glenn Reynolds notes: note that date. It's not just Bush), where Steve Kroft interviews an ex-spy, I am more concerned for the intelligence of the analysts reading the conversations.
Q: Is it possible for people like you and I, innocent civilians, to be targeted by Echelon?
Mr. FROST: Not only possible, not only probable, but factual. While I was at CSE, a classic example: A lady had been to a school play the night before, and her son was in the school play and she thought he did a--a lousy job. Next morning, she was talking on the telephone to her friend, and she said to her friend something like this, 'Oh, Danny really bombed last night,' just like that. The computer spit that conversation out. The analyst that was looking at it was not too sure about what the conversation w--was referring to, so erring on the side of caution, he listed that lady and her phone number in the database as a possible terrorist.
Really? As an intelligence analyst, you listened to some conversation a mom was having about her son and that translated: terrorist? Yikes, I'm more afraid of the CIA than ever.
I note that later in the show, they interview European Parliamentary members about their concern that the US is using the information they get for American industry. Which to me, just sounds like sorry loser ranting. Take it to court, and win, and then I'll take that whining seriously.

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I've always loved Zucchini Bread. I really enjoy how moist it always stays even a full week after it's been made. So I missed not being able to warm a couple pieces up in the morning to have with a coffee. But it didn't take me long to perfect this recipe. I love working with the THM Baking Blend. It's really superior to all other gluten free baking mixes.
Strawberry Lemon Thumbprint Cookies (THM S)
These little treats come out so soft, and moist. They pop with the flavors of Strawberry and lemon, and come together brilliantly in this cookie. They have a soft cakey texture and are a bit addictive, so be careful to not eat the whole tray. Fresh, bright and sweet. A lovely afternoon treat. Continue reading
FP (Fuel Pull) Dessert Round Up
It's so easy to always turn to those Heavy S, decadent, yummy, cream cheese delicacies for dessert , as they're so darn tasty and they don't leave us feeling at all like we're on a diet. (which we're not!!! THM is a way of eating…a plan, a new way of living out how we fuel our bodies) However, when you're still in the thick of wanting to lose weight it isn't advisable to have those kinds of treats after every meal and at every snack as they can stall your weight loss, or even cause a gain. So go ahead and Continue reading
Peanut Butter Cup Frosting
This frosting is so so delicious. I made this up, scooped up a large spoonful, walked through my house to find my husband. As he saw me coming with a spoon I told him to close his eyes and open his mouth. I had him taste this frosting ….he opened his eyes and they widened, he smiled largely swallowing than he blurted "Wow! That tastes better then a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup". Yes!!! I love making food, the person I love making it for the most is my husband, when he loves it I do a little victory dance. If you like this frosting as much as my hubby and kids do than I'll do another victory dance just for you too!! ❤ Continue reading
One Bowl Chocolate Fudge Cake (THM S)
I have to come clean…..I've just eaten this for breakfast while I finalize this post. It's that good!! lol
This One Bowl Chocolate Fudge Cake (with a dairy free option) is super easy to make, and extra nice to clean up. I don't know about you but since starting THM (read my testimony here) I've been on double dish duty, so making a THM dessert that's tasty, moist, fudgy AND super easy to clean up is a very welcome change indeed.
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David's post from yesterday: (Economic-security-a-green-alternative-to-the-growth-obsession) reminded me of something we wrote some time ago, for a different audience.
With a new title and a couple of minor amendments, here it is:
What's wrong with Growth?
Globally, GDP growth is ecologically unsustainable and, as pursued at present, is leading to severely unjust social outcomes. As greens, we know this only too well.
We know we are depend on and are consuming non-renewable resources at an alarming rate.
– At current rates of consumption and current population, the most optimistic estimates suggest world oil reserves would last 93 years. Less optimistic projections suggest oil reserves would be exhausted in 41 years.(i) But it's not just oil.
We know the ecological impacts of our actions are threatening our future. Extractive production, pollution, and wasteful consumption are leading to:
– Climate change
– Habitat loss
– Species extinction
We know that growth has benefited only a small proportion of the worlds' people.
– By the World Bank's estimate, 2.7 billion people live on less than US$2 a day.
– Eradicating this sort of crushing poverty is an urgent moral imperative, but the reality is that "the benefits of growth accrue only very weakly to the poorest members of the global community".
– For example, between 1980 and 2001, for every $1 increase in global income per person, 4c reached those on less than 2 dollars a day. 4% of additional income generated by the world economy is shared by 44% of the people in the world. (ii)
Even within wealthy NZ, we know that an alarming split has developed between the life chances and economic vulnerability of different groups and individuals in our society.
– Maori men have a life expectancy of 69 years while non-Maori men have a life expectancy of 77 years; Maori women have a life expectancy of 73 years while non-Maori women have a life expectancy of 82 years.
We know that the earth cannot support us all consuming at "developed nation" rates.
– The earth's biologically productive area is 11.5 billion hectares. That's 1.8 ha per person. But the developed world requires much more than that 1.8 ha to produce the resources we each use and to absorb the waste we each generate.
– We would need 3.7 planets to support everyone at developed world levels of consumption. (iii)
Nevertheless, social justice demands that our basic rights to food, housing, and health be extended to all 6 billion of our fellow humans.
– And as Herman Daly has pointed out, such needs are irreducibly material.(iv)
Finally, while efficiency and ingenuity in the form of new technologies can help, so far, growth has never been completely "dematerialised", or de-coupled from additional resource use and environmental impacts.
However, despite the unsustainable nature of GDP growth as outlined above, our present economic system and basic political consensus both inherently depend on GDP growth.
At the firm level, due to the profit motive and the dynamics of competition, the imperative is "grow or die".
– Firms constantly seek ways to improve productivity, reduce costs, innovate and gain size and market power – growth helps with these pressures, by providing economies of scale, resources for branding and advertising, resources for research and development. If they don't grow, firms risk losing market share, and being driven out of business or being taken over.
– This is especially true for companies that have been publicly floated on the stock exchange, because the share price depends not only on current performance, but also on expectations about rates of future growth.v
– A firm operating in a competitive market is therefore subject to a very urgent need to create more, produce more, and sell more in order to stay in existence.
At the national level, if the economy doesn't grow, economic problems ensue.
– For the government, faster growth improves fiscal position, slower growth worsens it (due to falling tax take, and increasing social welfare expenditure needs). (vi)
– With high overseas debt and huge current account deficits, New Zealand is very vulnerable to exchange rate meltdown and capital flight.
At the national level, if the economy doesn't grow, social and political pressures mount.
– Without (sufficient) growth, distribution of the returns on production becomes a zero-sum (or win-lose) game. That is to say, in absolute terms, some will become more wealthy and some will become less wealthy.
– The current political consensus has a materialistic legitimation: the broad popular agreement on the country's general direction for the past 60 years has been founded on the ability to simultaneously maintain/increase consumption, social wage, and profit. Without growth, this political legitimacy is threatened as social realities and power structures become more visible.
It certainly does seem that we have a problem: growth is unsustainable but our economy is founded upon it.
Therefore, we ask:
1. Can we have economic growth without increased resource use and environmental impacts?
2. What impacts would a cessation or reversal of GDP growth have on our current economic, political, and social systems?
3. What do the answers to these questions suggest for green movement strategy in the medium-term?
David Parker & Barry Larsen, 24/1/07
i. 2006 extraction rates of 85 million barrels per day US Energy Information Administration estimates reserves at 2.9 trillion barrels = 93.4 years at 2006 extraction rates. Oil & Gas Journal, Dec 2003, estimated 1.27 trillion barrels of oil remain in world wide reserves = 40.9 years at 2006 extraction rates.
ii. Poverty data from World Bank (2001) cited in NEF (2006) Growth isn't working. Retrieved from http://www.neweconomics.org. Other data from NEF ibid. Incidentally, the NEF argues that the same rate of poverty reduction achieved (on the basis of growth) between 1980 and 2001 could have been achieved by redistributing 0.12% of the income of the richest 10% of the world's population. You have to wonder, if that happened, would those richest 10% even notice?
iii. See http://www.footprintnetwork.org. "Developed world" footprint is taken as an average of North America + EU footprint data.
iv. See http://www.dieoff.org/page37.htm
v. See http://www.oligopolywatch.com/2005/08/16.html.
vi. See Statistics NZ Retrieved from http://www.ssc.govt.nz/display/document.asp?docid=2905&pageno=10
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From the Philippine Information Agency (Jun 27): Former rebels receive cash, livelihood assistance in AgSur
Three former rebels in Agusan del Sur received cash and livelihood assistance from the government thru the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga on June 23, 2017 in Patin-ay, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur.
According to 2Lt. Romel Arnado, Civil-Military Operations (CMO) Officer of 26th Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army, of the three former rebels, two surrendered to 26IB while the other one surrendered to 3rd Special Forces Battalion.
Arnado added that the three received from DILG and DSWD the P50,000.00 livelihood assistance and P15,000.00 cash assistance.
The names of the beneficiaries under the Comprehensive Local Integration Program (CLIP) were not disclosed for their safety/security especially when they go back to the mainstream society.
"The government wanted to help them cope with the normal life in their respective community and with the livelihood assistance given to them will be a good start. They can also avail of the other programs of the government when they need to," expressed Arnado.
Also, 26IB commanding officer LTC Rommel Pagayon encouraged other members of the New People's Army (NPA) in the province to surrender and be part of the mainstream society.
"The 26IB and 401st Brigade, Philippine Army with the guidance of Col. Andres Centino is very willing to accept the former rebels who would want to surrender. You are safe with us, and the government has programs and services intended for you," he underlined.
During the turn-over ceremony, the Philippine National Police (PNP) and other government agencies also witnessed said activity.


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Dorset Diggers had a stall at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival this May weekend. Lots of new contacts were made, including home educators, a Palaeontologist from UCL, a brick expert who will help us with our bricks from the Drift Road excavation and many individuals who are interested in the group.
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Lucy In Swing No. 18739250
Alright I know I post a lot of pictures of my baby in sunglasses, and I know I post a lot of pictures of her on a swing, but I can't help it. Wait until I finally post a picture of my baby IN A SWING... WITH SUNGLASSES! Aaaaahh!
Nat and Lucy went to the park for a little baby/dada time when we were finally back from Martha's Vineyard, and he was finally back from Mexico (for work). And I got this great picture for my Lucy-In-Sunglasses-Or-On-A-Swing collection.


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ok... short post, but here we go anyway.
I am still out of a job, but I have a job interview Monday for trader joes... more info on that soon
I spent the week cooking meals for my friend's/previous landlords mom while chelsea was caregiving. It was pretty fun..
saw harry potter last night and I thought it was pretty darn good (for harry potter that is).
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Clinton Gives Eulogy for Father-in-Law
April 10, 1993
From Reuters
President Clinton delivered an emotional eulogy Friday for his father-in-law, Hugh Rodham, during memorial services that attracted several hundred family and friends. Rodham, 82, the father of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, died Wednesday following a stroke March 19. Bruce Lindsey, White House personnel director, said Clinton delivered "very heartfelt" remarks. The Clintons and their daughter, Chelsea, 13, attended the small, private service at First United Methodist Church.
Mexico captures drug kingpin's father-in-law
April 30, 2013
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY - On the eve of President Obama's trip to Mexico, Mexican authorities on Tuesday announced the capture of a key drug cartel operative, the father-in-law and associate of one of the world's most-wanted fugitive kingpins. The major arrest - the first under new President Enrique Peña Nieto - comes as the extraordinarily close U.S.-Mexican cooperation in the drug war is undergoing significant changes. The Los Angeles Times reported this week that officials of the 5-month-old Mexican administration were alarmed to discover how deeply involved U.S. advisors were in sensitive areas of security and law enforcement during the six-year government of former President Felipe Calderon.
June 27, 1992
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Jury Acquits Kennedy's Future Father-in-Law: A Lafayette, La., jury acquitted Edmund Reggie, Sen. Edward Kennedy's prospective father-in-law, of federal charges of defrauding a savings and loan. Prosecutors said Reggie, who founded Acadia Savings & Loan in 1957, headed schemes to defraud the S&L and tried to force two investors to buy stock in a failing bank in order to get loans from the thrift. Both institutions were closed in 1987.
In Spain, an extended family weathers hard times
August 2, 2012
By Lauren Frayer, Los Angeles Times
MADRID - With a teenager in a wheelchair and four other children younger than 12, Tania Maroto can't work outside the home. For years, her family got by on her husband's construction paycheck and social security for their disabled daughter. But her husband, Jose Ramon Fernandez, lost his job a year ago. And now even his unemployment benefits are going to shrink as part of the most drastic budget cuts in Spain's democratic history. All they have left, it seems, is family. Living with parents and grandparents well into adulthood used to be a tradition in much of southern Europe.
For The Record
November 20, 2008
Multi-generational living: A story in Saturday's Home section on "granny flats" said that USC gerontology professor Jon Pynoos' father lived on his property and received end-of-life care there for five years. It was Pynoos' father-in-law, not father, who lived in the guesthouse, and he was not given end-of-life care there. The remodeling described, including leveling the floor and installing grab bars, was rather so his father-in-law could function independently in the guesthouse.
May 7, 1989
I wish I'd read "Computeritis," by Judy Pasternak (March 12), a few years ago. I will mail it to my general practitioner (who said all I could do was take aspirin and apply heat), and to my father-in-law (who sent me an article about emotions that masquerade as illnesses). JUDI MURPHY Camarillo
World Briefing
August 6, 2009
Times Wire Reports
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed a wife of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mahsud at his father-in-law's house, Pakistani intelligence and military officials said. Mahsud associates acknowledged that a woman was killed but would not confirm her identity. They said Mahsud was not at the South Waziristan home during the attack, which authorities said also killed a second person. Two intelligence officials and one army official, who all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters, said the missile strike had destroyed the home of Mahsud's father-in-law, Akramud Din, and that two people had been killed, including the second of Mahsud's two wives.
Tribute to Father-in-Law
March 8, 1986
Diane Zimmerman's tribute to her father-in-law which appeared in Valley View (Feb. 13) touched both of us. We were customers of Paul's for the many years he had his shop here in Studio City. It quickly became obvious to us that he was not just an ordinary man. His integrity would not let him carry any products that were not the very best! At times he could not furnish a particular cut of meat because he couldn't always obtain the best. His professional attitude, his knowledge and his caring for his customers still impress us deeply.
Reverse Chessism
December 1, 1985
Bill Cosby can't play chess. On his Thursday night shows, Cosby has tried, on occasion, to play with his son and father-in-law. While watching the Nov. 21 episode, it occurred to me why he never wins: He doesn't know how to set-up the chessboard. According to World Chess Federation Part I, Article 2.2: "The chessboard is placed between the players in such a way that the corner square to the right of each player is white." PAUL QUADE Anaheim
Refusenik Mother Fasts for Exit Visa
October 20, 1987
Associated Press
A Jewish woman has begun a hunger strike to win the right to emigrate and stopped nursing her baby to conserve her strength, the woman's husband said Monday. Alexander Kholmyansky said that his 27-year-old wife, Anna, began fasting Sunday to pressure Soviet authorities into granting the couple an exit visa. "She will just be taking water. No fruits, no vitamins, nothing but water," Kholmyansky said.
Powell saga: Trial begins for missing Utah woman's father-in-law
May 9, 2012
By Kim Murphy
SEATTLE - A mother of two young girls who once lived adjacent to Steven Powell in Puyallup, Wash., testified Wednesday that the images of naked young girls found in his home - playing in the bathtub, going to the toilet - were her daughters. "Do you recognize the people in these photos?" Pierce County deputy prosecutor Bryce Nelson asked the woman, identified only as "D.C." in the extraordinary opening of Powell's trial on 14 counts of voyeurism. "Yes," she replied impassively.
Relative of fugitive cartel chief captured, Mexico officials announce
March 24, 2011
By Cecilia Sanchez, Los Angeles Times
Mexican authorities said Wednesday that they had captured a close family member of fugitive billionaire drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman while busting a Sinaloa cartel operation that extended all the way to Ecuador. Victor Manuel Felix was one of 18 people arrested in Mexico and Ecuador, the Mexican Public Security Ministry said. Federal police identified Felix as the father-in-law of Guzman's son as well as the godfather of one of the drug lord's children. That makes Felix and Guzman compadres , or co-fathers, which in Latin America is an especially tight relationship.
UCLA's Ben Howland to help raise funds for Huntington's disease research
August 9, 2010
Bill Dwyre
UCLA's Ben Howland wishes he could run a zone trap on this one. He'd like to surround it, smother it until it can't function, wipe it out forever. But he can't. It is called Huntington's disease, a terrible affliction with no effective treatment and no cure and something that hovers over his family like a dark cloud. Four years ago, Howland's father-in-law, Arlo Zahnow, died of Huntington's at age 74. At the end, after years of walking with a lurch and gesturing wildly from uncontrollable limbs, Zahnow was unable to even do that.
William 'Bill' Binder dies at 94; ran Philippe's eatery
February 9, 2010
Keith Thursby
William "Bill" Binder, who for years ran Philippe's, the Los Angeles eating institution famous for its sawdust-covered floors and trademark French dip sandwiches, has died. He was 94. Binder, who retired in 1985, died Jan. 28 of natural causes at a care facility in Pasadena, said his son John, who runs Philippe's with his brother, Richard. "He had a real mild temperament; he always tried to treat everybody with respect," John Binder said. "He had a very, very deep religious belief.
Woman seeking return of looted art from Norton Simon Museum loses appeal
January 16, 2010
By Mike Boehm
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refused Thursday to rehear an appeal by a Connecticut woman seeking the return of two of the Norton Simon Museum's most prized holdings. Marei Von Saher, who is trying to win the nearly 500-year-old paintings of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden by the German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, had sought a rehearing before all of the court's judges. The ruling could mean that barring a successful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, families whose art was stolen during the Holocaust and now is owned by a California museum or gallery have lost their right to circumvent the usual three-year statute of limitations in suing for its recovery.
World Briefing
August 6, 2009
Times Wire Reports
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed a wife of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mahsud at his father-in-law's house, Pakistani intelligence and military officials said. Mahsud associates acknowledged that a woman was killed but would not confirm her identity. They said Mahsud was not at the South Waziristan home during the attack, which authorities said also killed a second person. Two intelligence officials and one army official, who all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters, said the missile strike had destroyed the home of Mahsud's father-in-law, Akramud Din, and that two people had been killed, including the second of Mahsud's two wives.
Pathetic Doesn't Cover This One, T.J.
January 31, 1998
This is the pathetic, pitiful little girl of T.J. Simers' Jan. 25 column. I have been vindicated by my first sports idol, John Elway. He has restored faith in all my sports idols, past and present. I now believe that Billy Joe Tolliver really could hit the Pacific Ocean if standing at the end of Crystal Pier. I now believe that Bill Hanzlik could coach the Denver Nuggets to a winning season. I now believe that Ron Powlus just might be the No. 1 draft pick this year. John Elway has restored my faith, but I will forever owe my father for exposing me to my idols.
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Our visit to Puebla was just overnight, and so pretty fleeting. A couple of hours south of Mexico City, it was a whole world away from the capital's intensity. With the nation's tallest cathedral at the heart, the city of Puebla had a small town feel, and the streets were lined with quaint colourful buildings.
Is this guy doing what I think he is?
I'd barely heard of the Zapotecs before, but it seems that they really got stuck in all these years ago. They've also got one of the best names of the ancient Mexicans. Maya sounds a bit soft, Teotihuacan is unnecessarily difficult to pronounce, only Aztec sounds as cool. Civilisations should bear this in mind when naming themselves: you don't want the people of the future to regard you as pansies.
is how they make mescal, with a bunch of cacti and traditional techniques. Mescal is pretty nice, it's kind of the Mexican whisky, and while the unaged stuff is pretty toxic, the aged stuff is good. I bought a bottle of the 8-year-old for further investigation.
We could easily have spent another day in Puebla, and I quite fancied visiting nearby Cholula, which has, by some claims, the largest pyramid in the world, at a respectable 55 metres high and an enormous 400 metres by 400 metres wide at the base. It was built by various different societies from as early as 200 BC, with Teotihuacan suspected as having an early role. Every time someone took over the area, they'd build over the pyramid, and it got bigger and bigger. The final owners were the Aztecs, who called it Tlachihualtepetl... yeah, thanks guy. But after the Spanish took over, it was all forgotten about, and apparently today it's not much to look at - it's so overgrown it looks like a hill, and has a 16th Century church built on top. It seems that excavating and restoring the largest pyramid in the world isn't a priority for anyone. I think it has a bunch of tunnels, but the Lonely Planet said they're closed for visitors right now. Anyway, none of this matters as we didn't visit. Five days in Vegas and just one in Puebla - doesn't really feel right.
Oaxaca followed, for two days and nights. Two days and nights in which I never figured out how on earth to pronounce it. Forget about the "x", apparently it's o-a-wa-ca. Well, that's just confusing, isn't it?
In the mould of Puebla, Oaxaca is a thoroughly charming colonial-style small city with a large cathedral in the middle. The central square is a colourful mish-mash of stalls and vendors, covered with plastic canopies to protect against the frequent showers, and entire paths filled with tents where, I guess, the vendors rest and possibly even sleep overnight. Running from it to our hostel was a pedestrianised street, lined with coffeeshops, bookshops, and bars: there was an affluent streak to the city.
Our first afternoon and evening was spent contentedly exploring these areas. The next day it was something a little different - ruins. Mexico is a little like Peru, in that it is stuffed full of ancient ruins from long-dead civilisations. They're scattered all around the country, in various states of excavation and preservation. Oaxaca's star attraction, a World Heritage site since 1987, is a gift from the Zapotecs, now called Monte Alban (named after Damon's uncle). Imagine Machu Picchu crossed with Teotihuacan, micro version, and you've got Monte Alban. An impressive collection of mountaintop ruins, with pyramids, platforms, and temples mostly gathered round a central courtyard area, it was the capital city of the Zapotecs, and anything up to 25,000 people might have once lived in the surrounding hillsides. It was founded around 500 BC but the monumental stuff mostly dates from around 300 to 700 AD. Like most Mexican civilisations, it started to fall apart after around 700 AD for reasons still not fully explained (alien attack seems the only sound theory), and was abandoned by the 10th Century. It's pretty spectacular. After seeing the ruins of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, and nearby Teotihuacan, and knowing what the upcoming Maya stuff will look like, there is a very definite ancient Mexican style, much in the way we can see how Greek architecture informed the Romans, which informed Renaissance and many other European styles today.
Is this guy doing what I think he is?
I'd barely heard of the Zapotecs before, but it seems that they really got stuck in all these years ago. They've also got one of the best names of the ancient Mexicans. Maya sounds a bit soft, Teotihuacan is unnecessarily difficult to pronounce, only Aztec sounds as cool. Civilisations should bear this in mind when naming themselves: you don't want the people of the future to regard you as pansies.
It rained very, very heavily just as we got on the bus to return to Oaxaca, turning the steep streets of the city outskirts into gushing rivers. By now, we're kind of taking this in our stride: every single day we've been in Mexico so far has seen furious rainstorms, although we've been lucky enough to avoid the worst. Danielle seems more peeved about it all than I am - her vision of Mexico was hot and dry, and everywhere we've been has been chilly and wet. The rainy season is partly responsible, as is the high altitude of everywhere we've been, around the 2000 metre mark. The benefit of it all is that it acclimatises us to our return to Scotland in just a couple of weeks. Danielle does not see it this way - she wants to return with a tan.
For our final day, we took a tour. I've long been wary of tours, as I don't like being at the whim of the bus and the guide. At the same time, they can be a much more convenient way of seeing a bunch of things. This tour was of three things: a big tree, a carpet maker, and the ancient Zapotec ruins of Mitla. I think you can guess which part of the tour appealed to me. It turned out to be a reasonably intense experience. Danielle and I were the only two people on the tour, and so we had the full attentions of the guide, a lady in her mid-to-late 50s, local, but with a peculiar Germanic accent (Danielle says her Spanish also had a Germanic twang), and some wild tales. These mostly seemed to focus on her adventures as a teenager in Britain, in the 1970s I guess, and touring about the country in an illegally driven car and stowing away on boats, including peeling potatoes in a boat destined for Dublin (the boat was turned back because it was full of illegal immigrants, and I guess rather a lot of peeled potatoes). It didn't help at all that most of this was regaled while in the minibus along bumpy roads, and so I could barely hear what she was saying. By the end of it all, Danielle turned to me and said "Do you think any of that was true?" I simply have no idea.
When not talking about her youthful adventures, as a guide she was merely average. Too often, she went onto automatic mode, as if the "play" button had been pressed on her latest block of heavily-accented words. This means I didn't learn a lot except that this:
is a very big tree, maybe the biggest in the world, and is about 1500 years old. And this:
is how they make mescal, with a bunch of cacti and traditional techniques. Mescal is pretty nice, it's kind of the Mexican whisky, and while the unaged stuff is pretty toxic, the aged stuff is good. I bought a bottle of the 8-year-old for further investigation.
We went to some place where the make carpets with traditional techniques. The carpet maker took over and for the first time in my life, I actually found it slightly interesting. I'm afraid that carpet weaving just isn't my thing, and traditional techniques don't oil my boat either, but for a brief moment during the explanation I thought to myself, "This isn't too bad." Perhaps it was because our guide had disappeared.
Finally, the reason I'd gone on the tour - Mitla.
From what I could gather from the guide: Zapotec, the Spanish took over it and reused most of the stone to build a church and generally tricked and robbed the Zapotecs, one part of the complex was kept intact because a Spanish guy lived there, and she used to play there as a child. I didn't understand the rest. From Wikipedia, I gather that Mitla was the religious centre of the Zapotecs (Monte Alban was the political centre). There would have been a small city surrounding the surviving ruins, and it long-outlived Monte Alban, and was going strong right up until 1521, when the Spanish rolled in and decided it was time for all Mexican civilisation to end. They took down a lot of Mitla to build the small church you can see above. Overall, the site is interesting rather than spectacular, and the intricate stonework - unique in Mexican civilisation - is the main selling point for tourists.
That night we were in for a treat: the overnight bus from Oaxaca to San Cristobal de las Casas. But not just any overnight bus, it was our last overnight bus. After overnight buses in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay-to-Brazil, Greece-to-Turkey, America and Canada, this was to be our last one. Danielle insists her last one ever. Even before I got on, I started getting nostalgic for all our overnight buses, and wondering too if my days on overnight buses are also over. But then I remembered that I also hate overnight buses, and that I will be delighted never to have to get on another overnight bus as long as I live.


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I think this looks awesome. We were trying to scan this instax print into the computer, but kept losing the white border. I wanted to keep it, so we grabbed the nearest sheet of paper that wasn't white (a magazine), with the intention of cropping around that border in-computer. We decided it looked cool though so I used a really loose crop so you could still see the mag :) I think it looks really graphic and cool. Could be fun to play with! It's like the digital version of a photogram! Well, I guess not really. More like a collage. Whatever.
It was a rough race this week. First off, it was HOT. Also, Jordan tried a different strategy this week that kinda screwed him. I think he got in still 8th or 9th.. Still top ten! I think he's doing great. He's the smallest and youngest of the cyclists in his group - so impressive.
The whole family gets into the action. Look at that intense concentration:
It's been kind of an emotional day for me, so after the race, we stopped at Kroger to get some [coconut milk] ice cream (yumm-mm-mmm-ie) to eat during SYTYCD. It was a good episode tonight - certainly cheered me up! Gotta love that Bollywood. Also, they had the first Tango routine that I've ever really liked on the show! Excited about tomorrow :)
Ok that's it. I'm gonna go wind down on Pinterest for a little while. Peace out!


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Story tool doesn`t work with facial animation
Hi all!
Help me, please, to solve a problem: story tool doesn`t work with facial animation.
I have made an animation of face using "actor face" and "character face". I have made "plot" in character face window. Keys of animation were created. I can see them, when I select some "shapes" in "properties" window.
I want to edit current take in story tool. I insert "character animation track" or "generic animation track". Push "insert current take". Take appears here, but when I edit it, scene doesn`t change. It doesn`t work. Button "story" is on.
May be I should to plot another way? Or to insert another type of track? Or to insert take to track another way?
|03 March 2013
Jon Mummery
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so when you add the generic track, you need to also add the controls/joints that the keys are set on. In the generic track, you should be able to edit (with like a mini navigator) anything at all to be included in that track. You can see ticks next to which nodes are being driven in Story.
Then you should be able to insert animation from the active take. The clip should show keys on it. You can then make this read only which saves the clip on its own.
Apologies im away from computer, but try that. Good luck
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Apart from stress, lack of good exercise, depression, a poor diet, poor bedtime habits and the need for some gentle brain re-training, sleeping pills are very often another major contributor to the misery causing condition of insomnia - not to mention a large list of other uncomfortable side-effects that are common with the ingestion of a drug.
As an aid toward dealing with insomnia naturally and without causing yourself any further uncomfortable complications, it's important you know that although Popping sleeping pills might help in the short term, they are open to abuse and have other associated risks - addiction being one of the worst risks.
So, What Are Sleeping Pills?
They're mostly of a class described as "sedative hypnotics" and include the types known as benzodiazepines and barbiturates.
Barbiturates, although mostly used as anesthetics, depress and then sedate the central nervous system, so are also prescribed as a sedative or sleeping pill.
A benzodiazepine will increase sleepiness and is mostly prescribed for an anxiety problem. Benzodiazepines such as valium, librium, xanax and ativan are known to be especially addictive and open to severe abuse.
There are other newer, supposedly non-addictive, sleep-helping drugs on the market today - ambien, rozerem and lunesta are examples.
It's simple; sleeping pills do have side-effects just like every type of drug that is out there, including the every-day occurrence of addiction. You'll only know if you'll suffer any of the possible side-effects once you're actually using them.
And guess what? They can often stop working after a fairly short amount of use and leave you with an even deeper insomnia problem - great!
So in summary; stress, depression, lack of exercise, a poor bedtime routine and a poor diet, the need for some gentle brain re-training and your way of thinking along with a knowledge of what you're letting yourself in for if you choose to use sleeping pills, is critical for ensuring you rid yourself of the misery of insomnia.
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So here it is girls, the content of the Selfridges bag! Apologies for the delay. I got it for my birthday in October. Hubbie and I went to the Selfridges in the Bullring and the bag I was really eyeing was the Michael Kors Travel Tote in Medium. I was really disappointed that they only had it in Small and Large and, like a child, just wanted to go home empty handed. haha I'm lucky I have a very patient and caring husband, as he convinced me to look around and check out the other bags. I found this DKNY one and loved it straight away! It's called the Saffiano Work two-zip Shopper.
I knew i was going to spend an unreasonable amount of money on this bag so I really wanted to make sure the model was simple and classic (no season trend designer bags for me -yet! haha). I love how it kind of looks like a female suitcase, I think that's very elegant! There are two straps to carry it on your arm and a longer one to wear it as a cross body. I wouldn't recommend the latter though, as I found it can really mess up the shape of the bag. This is the same material as the MK bag. I had no idea what it was, but in my head I was sure it wasn't leather. I was wrong! It's actually Saffiano leather, it's just a different treatment that the leather receives.
There are three compartments in this bag and I think it's the perfect amount of space. The middle one has a magnet to close it, it's very roomie and has 2 zipper compartments and a place for you phone. No more hunting for it in the depths of the bag! The other two compartment close with a zipper and are just as spacious and fit my iPad perfectly! Unfortunately, this bag hasn't held its shape very well. You can see the bit that stick out to the side. They used to be perfectly straight. I think that is my own fault, though, in the way I stored it. I now make sure it's always hanging instead of just sitting somewhere!
All in all, I am very happy with this bag! It's so classic and elegant, I'm getting so much use out of it! I really love this bag!


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Sometimes, you need a bit of a nudge to make you get on with things. I'm definitely a person who needs deadlines. If I decide to do something for myself, chances are that I'll make a feeble stab at starting, then get lost halfway through and it'll sit forever in the garage as a WIP. Ask me to make something for a birthday or particular event, and I'll probably still make a feeble stab at starting then get lost halfway through, but three days before the deadline, I'll scoop it up and and finish it all in a rush. It's why I've always been better at exams than coursework, and why I'm good at thinking on my feet but am a terrible brooder when given time to ponder.
All of which is a roundabout way of saying that with November here, I've decided to give NaBloPoMo another go. I got as far as the 17th last year, so this year, the idea is to get to the 25th at least.
Looking back, it's been a funny old year, with huge ups and downs. It started well, took a nasty plunge in the middle, started to pick up again, and has begun the inevitable nose-dive into winter that I always get. But this year I am armed with both my lightbox and a window for a my office. A window!
The idea of NaBloPoMo is that you write each post on the day, but I've cheated a little and planned out what I'm going to say, as well as taking some pictures in advance. With the days getting shorter, I can't guarantee enough sunshine otherwise!
Confusingly, the big NaBloPoMo month seems to have been October, so I'm running a bit late as usual and won't be able to sign up to anything central (unless anyone can point me at a sign-up list?) Instead, I'm just going to potter along over here, catching up on the things I've been making, doing and thinking about and hoping to get back in the blogging habit.
And because no blog post is complete without a picture and a link, I heartily recommend to you this Tumblr about what it's really like to be an archivist. Which I'm not but most of these apply to librarians as well.


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Are you a smoker that has difficulty keeping up with your non-smoker friends during physical activities? Even if you just want to go for a run or go to the gym being a smoker of traditional cigarettes can make things difficult. Trying to keep up with your fellow players in a team sport is a battle after you've just inhaled traditional cigarette smoke. There has been much debate on the differences between electronic cigarettes and traditional cigarettes and what products are better for certain circumstances. For those looking to partake in regular physical activity, the debate between e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes is still being determined. For many, e-cigarettes have become a popular supplement and alternative to traditional cigarettes.
As many smokers may already realize their performance in physical activities is hindered by the inhalation of tar and smoke that come with traditional cigarettes. Contrary to what some non-smokers may believe, many smokers do participate in going to the gym, running, and lead very active lifestyles. Unfortunately difficulty performing these types of physical tasks and a hindered athletic performance is common for many smokers.
For smokers who are looking to still perform well during physical activities and want to be able to continue maintaining an active lifestyle e-cigarette may be a viable alternative. By using e-cigarettes you'll be able to avoid inhaling the tar and smoke that comes with traditional cigarettes. Having healthy lungs is extremely important in any type of high intensity physical activity. It is no secret what traditional cigarettes can do to your lungs to cause damage.
Being able to perform well and maintain an active lifestyle can have huge positive effects in many areas of your life. Regular exercise may assist in increasing energy levels, physical fitness, cognitive function and overall general health. Many of us do want to maintain a healthy lifestyle and the general trend in the United States is moving towards a healthier generation for many young people. For those of you who are looking to increase your physical fitness, play all the sports you're used to playing and maintain an overall active lifestyle switching to NuvoCig electronic cigarettes may be an attractive alternative. NuvoCig allows you to avoid inhaling the tar and cigarette smoke that has been slowing you down in the past. Using NuvoCig as an alternative or a supplement could potentially lead to some results that will increase your level of physical activity ability to an amount that you are happy with.


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In reading the yahoo news the other day, I came across an article that actually had me pretty enraged. Granted, this was after a glass of wine and a long day buying a car, but still. There are people out there actually giving Kate Middleton (Catherine if I'm being proper) a hard time for showing her post baby bump when they left the hospital.
What the what?
Seriously? When talking with my employees after they showed the pictures, I commented about how awesome she looked for having a baby just one day before. Twenty-four hours. Hell, I was impressed with the fact she walked out of there, in heels no less. I couldn't even walk at that point, and God, the way I looked? Nowhere near that. Swelling, sweating, gross all around...it wasn't pretty. So she looked pretty damn good, if you ask me.
Aside from that, if you click on the article, you see the only thing that's noticeable is a tiny belly. And people are all like "how is she going to get her pre-baby body back?" Um, one, she just had a baby, like two days ago. And two, she just had a baby, like two days ago. She's not going to be getting sleep, probably feels like hell run over, and working out and losing weight is the last thing on her mind. If she's anything like me, I didn't even want to look at my post-baby belly when I was at the hospital. It was just...weird. Time passed, and it got better, but it was post-surgery so I wasn't a fan of checking it out.
I have lost thirty pounds over the course of a year. I'm down to a weight I was in college. But the one thing I still have? A baby pooch. I do. It's there. I talked to the doctor who helped me with the weight loss, and she basically said "well, not much you can do about that..." aside from crunches, etc. But really, I had a freaking kid. Even if I got to a weight that was way below my goal weight, I'm still going to have it. What can I do?
I know there are women out there who look like they did pre-baby right after having a kid. I'm related to many. Many of these women are able to pull of a bikini with freaking six pack abs. But not all women are so lucky. Every woman is different.
But for God's sake people, she had a kid! Two days ago! Leave her alone! The amount of respect I have for her for looking that awesome, smiling and greeting the press and walking just one day after having a baby is huge. Girl is tough. Gotta give her props. It's just a shame that there are people out there just looking to stir up problems.
With people acting like this, it's no wonder I worry about Aubrey some day and the body image issues she will have to face....


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One of my professors loves to bake and cook. He knows how into sweets I am, so he gave me a container of lemon curd. That was my first encounter with lemon curd. I went home, grabbed a spoon, and ate it all. It was the most heavenly, zesty thing I had ever eaten.
The next time he gave me some lemon curd, my professor told me I had to use it in a cupcake. He gave me three containers, so I at one with a spoon and used the other two to fill these Spring cupcakes.[end-story]


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Lunch at Weis Restaurant, Toowoomba
Lunch with Mum at K&K Austrian Cafe
My Birthday Cake, lovingly made for me by Russell
Lisa and Adam with a mega load of seafood... Yep we managed to eat it all :)
Birthday Afternoon tea last Sunday...
I have finally reached that 40's club :) I am rather happy about it too. I had my birthday yesterday but have actually been celebrating for the last 10 days... One has to with such a milestone I believe. lol
I was lucky enough to be taken out to lunch by my wonderful hubby yesterday and had a wonderful feast on seafood... Two of my besties came up the weekend before last and brought a whole heap of seafood with them also... Last weekend my Dad and I celebrated November birthdays yet again. Lots of cakes, six in fact... Way too much food... But what a wonderful time we had. Got a visit in with Margaret and had a lovely lunch with my mum also. Even got cards and a couple of parcels in the mail... One lucky girl :) Older girl I should say. lol
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Yom HaShoah, part two: the monument in Paris
Below is an excerpt from an essay I wrote for a travel writing workshop in the fall of 2005. It describes a portion of my trip to Paris the previous summer. Normally I'm not keen on including my own more creative writing in this blog, and my reasons largely boil down to the fact that I'm often rather paranoid, but this essay needs enough work before it'll be publishable that I don't mind. Beyond that, I felt like this section was appropriate to the day. I hope you enjoy it.
. . . My sister crossed over to the Left Bank, and I headed to the Holocaust memorial, located on the southeastern tip of the Île de la Cité. I'd never heard of it before, but it had been mentioned in my sister's guidebook, and the book's brief blurb made it seem worth checking out.
I crossed a street and went through a gate into a small park. It was quiet, populated by only a handful of people. I felt a world away from the crowded plaza in front of Notre Dame. The park was lined with trees, and along one edge were benches, their backs to the cathedral. Across a dirt path from the benches was a stretch of grass, in the center of which was a triangle of rose bushes. A few of the bushes still had vivid pink blooms. I could hear the Seine and the distant noises of the city. A woman ate her lunch on one of the benches. Overall, the scene was a peaceful one.
Beyond the grass, however, was a large cement slab, a sort of bunker. Slashed into the stone were numbers and letters, and the slashes were painted red, making it look as if the cuts had drawn blood from the stone. 1940 was on the left side, 1945 on the right. I read the words slowly: Aux deux cent mille martyrs Français morts dans les camps de la deportation. To the two hundred thousand French martyrs who died in concentration camps. Several steps from the monument was information: a basic explanation of the Holocaust, photos, maps depicting the locations where the "undesirables" were gathered before being deported. I looked it over, then stepped over to a wall to look out at the Seine. I was moved already, and I hadn't even been inside yet.
I walked down a narrow flight of stairs cutting through the cement into the "bunker," entering the monument proper. Iron spikes sticking out horizontally from a wall greeted me across a tiny courtyard; behind them was a grated window through which I could barely glimpse the river. I turned and stepped inside, into a small round cell, cut off by a metal gate, beyond which was what looked like a hallway. Small glowing crystals lined the hallway, one for each of the two hundred thousand martyrs. Above the gate was an inscription slashed into the wall: Pardonne, N'oublie pas… Forgive, don't forget. There were wings to the left and right, each consisting of a small rectangle of space. Into the walls were carved triangles memorializing each of the concentration camps, along with quotes about humanity and the Holocaust.
I closed my eyes and pressed a palm to the wall. It was cool, hard, rough. I swallowed, willing away tears. A few other tourists roamed through the monument, murmuring to one another, reading the quotes, translating words for the non-French speakers or explaining what happened to those who hadn't yet studied it in school. A tall young man in a navy blue kippah walked slowly around the monument's perimeter, looking bereft.
The monument was unveiled in 1962, during Charles de Gaulle's presidency. The main complaints about the monument are that it is so easily missed, and that it does not acknowledge that Jews made up the majority of the deportees. Given how desperately the de Gaulle administration wanted to put World War II and the Holocaust behind them, the skeptic in me thinks it's lucky there's a memorial at all. It frightens me, though, this attempt to deny what happened. One of my students the previous semester had told me that his high school history classes had barely mentioned the Nazis and the Holocaust. I'm sure he was exaggerating, but it made me think. If we don't remember past genocides, if we don't educate ourselves and our children about them, then how can we stop future ones from happening?
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It so happens that a Star Trek Voyager episode addresses the question of whether to forget or not. It even involves an alien language, but not French.
It was titled "Memorial", episode 134, season 6, first aired February 2, 2000 (I'm sure I was busy at the time). It was about a memorial on a now uninhabitated planet where 300 years before the inhabitants were massacred for resisting relocation. The memorial causes those on passing spaceships to remember the massacre telepathically, complete with guilt, fear, and other qualities that make the experience seem real. The crew spent the episode figuring out where this was coming from, what the reality of it was, and whether they somehow did participate in the massacre under some sort of spell, before it was revealed to have happened 300 years earlier.
In the end there are two schools of thought. Neelix and Captain Janeway want the memorial preserved out of respect for the massacre. Everyone else wants to disable it so as not to interfere with others again. The captain wins.
Usually I'm with Chakotay on this show. I don't have his facial tattoo, but I like his visions and pragmatism. He wants to disable the memorial. There are so many other reminders of how vicious human beings can be. There are, you know. If you miss Schindler's List you might see The Killing Fields, where Pol Pot destroys the intellectual class in Cambodia, meaning anyone who wears glasses. It is a necessary lesson to learn what human beings are capable of, not just the charismatic maniacs in power, but all the educated and talented people who not only allow mass murder, but try to make it more efficient. There are still plenty of nuclear weapons on Earth to aid such an effort.
How much does this lesson have to be driven home? I'm with Chakotay. There's enough memory as it is. But I know I don't have a deciding vote any more than Chakotay did. C'est la vie.


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Being the first time I have attempted a cheesecake, I didn't realise quite how long they took to bake and was therefore up until the early hours waiting.. and waiting.. and waiting. When it was finally ready, I felt like a proud mother looking after my little cake baby (or perhaps this is the tiredness talking). I advise that you learn from my mistake and make this cake in the morning, as the total cooking time to prepare, bake, cool and refrigerate is around 7 hours. Anyway, late night baking aside, this cake is possibly the most delicious thing I have ever eaten. Crumbly, buttery biscuit base with a light, creamy mascarpone topping and golden crust. Just thinking about it is making me want to devour the whole thing (although that probably wouldn't be wise considering that 3 tubs of cream cheese went into it – light on the taste, but definitely not on the hips!)
for the base:
225g digestive biscuits
1tbsp caster sugar
5tbsp salted butter
for the cheesecake:
3 x 250g tubs mascarpone cheese (750g)
200g caster sugar
pinch of salt
2 rounded tbsp crème fraîche
1 1/2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 1/3 tsp vanilla extract
4 eggs + 1 yolk
(preheat oven to 160*c and grease and line a deep 9" spring form tin)
-place all the base ingredients into a blender and blend into a buttery crumb
– press evenly into the base of the tin and bake for 10 minutes
– leave to cool while you prepare the filling
(raise oven temperature to 250*c)
– spoon the mascarpone into a large bowl and mix with an electric whisk until creamy (you could do all of the mixing in a Magimix)
– add the sugar half at a time and mix until well combined
– add the salt, cream, lemon and vanilla and mix well
– beat in the yolk and then the eggs one at a time
– pour the filling mixture on top of the base and place the whole tin on a baking tray to catch any spillages
– bake in the oven at 250*c for 12 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 90*c and bake for a further 1 1/2hrs – if the top of the cake begins to brown too much, cover with foil or baking parchment
– to check if the cheesecake is ready, shake the tin and it should wobble slightly (like a set custard)
– once out of the oven, leave to cool completely (1-2hrs) and then place in the fridge for a couple of hours
– remove from tin and allow to stand at room temperature to warm slightly before serving
*do not open the oven while the cake bakes
**this cheesecake will keep in the fridge for up to 4 days – you could also freeze this cake if you don't manage to finish it all, then defrost in the fridge when you need it


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June 27, 2010 6 yr Old Terrorist
Homeland Security has done it again… Thanks to the new "Secure Flight Program."
If any of you can recall the event where my friend accidentally left a knife in his carry on and it was never caught by the TSA, this is really going to shake your head at the bright individuals that work for our government.
Alyssa Thomas and her family were boarding for a domestic flight when they were pulled aside because her name turned up on a terrorist list. The FBI cannot say anything more about the mysterious list such as how many people are on it, who is on it or even why.
Whatever the case is, what the hell? Maybe the FBI has a good reason for putting a 6yr old on a terrorist watch list. It's well over my head because I cannot seem to think of a good, legitimate or even bizarre reason. Funny thing is, a few months prior to the incident, they were in Mexico. No terrorist then?
Read the Article and watch the video here OR Watch just the video here
Tags: 6, Alyssa Thomas, FBI, Homeland Security, old, terrorist, tsa, yr
June 2, 2010 Doctor Shortage
Sorry it has been awhile since my last post. I just came across an interesting video from MSNBC that talks about how over the next 10 years, their could be a 40,000 shortage of doctors across America. Their solution? Have nurses take over some of the regular tasks of a doctor under the supervision of a doctor. Let that sink in for a bit. When you go in for a sore throat or a cough, its pretty straightforward. The nurse and the doctor most likely will diagnose and treat the symptoms the same way.
This will help alleviate some of the repetitive cases that require little effort to diagnose and treat. However, if it is something more serious I would rather go see a doctor and I think anyone would agree. I see a few problems with this though. Its a great idea but we have to hold these nurses at a new standard and responsibility. Nurses simply do not receive the same education as doctors do. That is a fact. Yes, experience plays an important role and I completely respect nurses by all means because I go to one of the best nursing schools in Minnesota (However, I am studying marketing).
Comment on what you think. The American Medical Association (AMA) has been confronted by nurses that wish to change the rules behind this new initiation of nurses treating and diagnosing patients. Some nurses wish to practice without the supervision of a doctor. I could see this playing out a few different ways: a patient comes in to get checked out and the nurse is unable to diagnose them. So the nurse refers them to a specialist. OR: a patient comes in to get check out and the nurse who is overconfident with their new entitlement/authority to diagnose and treat could misdiagnose a patient and create a very hefty and unwanted malpractice suit. Hmm, who takes the risk? I think both the nurse and the patient will be taking a risk. The benefit is, there will create a huge cost savings and doctors can focus more of their valuable time on more serious cases. It is a great idea, however there needs to be a standard for nurses. What do you think? Leave a comment.
Watch the video here.
Tags: AMA, american medical association, doctor, doctors, get, nurses, nurses treating patients, patients, to, treat
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May 8, 2010 Exaggerated Drug War
I recently watched a video I found from a friend posted on Facebook. This video is a highlight of Columbia SWAT in Missouri performing a raid on a family home in February. They only found a tiny amount of Marijuana in the home, enough to charge a misdemeanor . However, that is not the punchline. (Check out the link to the article here)
As they raided the home they shot the family's kenneled pit bull and corgi seven times. The dogs were no threat. The family's seven year old son was present as they fired upon the dog. In conclusion, the husband was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana and the parents were charged with child endangerment. So second hand smoking from cigarettes are just fine? I pity ignorance and people who still believe marijuana is a threat to society. Comment this; I like to incite debate.
Watch the video———————>
Tags: child endangerment, columbia, dog shot, facebook, marijuana, misdemeanor, missouri, possession, swat, Youtube
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Veronica came in a couple weeks ago, and we did a quick little model session. She decided to come back for a full session, and I could not be happier that she did. We took a walk through a local park, and just enjoyed how AMAZING the light, nature and a pregnant belly can be. She also brought her 4 legged kids, which was a nice treat.
This photo below, we trudged through the murky water for. Worth it.


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Calling the Health Care Bluff
John Perry backs up Margaret Flowers after Obama mislead on health care during the State of the Union


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The video shows one hostage, Peter Moore, saying the five are being treated well, Channel 4 News said. He calls for their release.
The video was shot eight days ago and has not been released to the media.
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman did not give details but said it was a "significant development".
Peter Moore and his four security guards were kidnapped May 29, 2007, by a group of about 40 men disguised as Iraqi policemen. A video was released in February 2008, in which Moore pleaded with the British government to free nine Iraqi prisoners in exchange for their release. And in June 2008, the kidnappers claimed that one of the security guards, identified only as Jason, had committed suicide after giving hope of ever being freed. This report has never been confirmed, however.
Please pray harder than ever for the protection and rescue of these hostages, as it appears that events are at a critical point and could finally result in their deliverance from their captors.
Hostage News Updates 11/19/08
Kidnappers Offer to Trade Body of Hostage for Iraqi Prisoners
British Hostages Moved, Separated
British Officials Claim They Were Close to Hostage Rescue
British Hostage Has Killed Himself
British Intelligence Blew Chance for Hostage Rescue
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Time to End the Silence
Captors of British Hostages Respond to Families
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One Year of Captivity for British Hostages
New Push to Rescue British Hostages
New Plea for British Hostages
Iran Denies Holding British Hostages
Five British Hostages Feared to Be in Hands of Revolutionary Guard
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Families of British Hostages Send Message
Video Released of British Hostages (Updated with Video)
British Hostages to Be Free Soon?
Three Shiites Arrested for Kidnapping Brits
Family of British Hostage Pleads for His Release
Abducted Britons Believed to be Held by "Shiite Zarqawi"
Johnston: my prayers for forgotten hostages
Kidnapped Brits Held by "Iran-Backed" Killers
Britons kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Our first run of Big A IPA in 12-ounce bottles.
Posted by Peter Egelston at 2:48 PM
Labels: Big A IPA, Double IPA, Imperial IPA, Smuttynose
1 comment:
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2010 at 4:44 PM
All it's lacking is a Charlie Chaplin cameo!ReplyDelete
22 oz vs. 12 - clearly a "case" of less is many more. Here's to Big A in more than one way.
Ken Z.
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Friday, May 28, 2010
"Wow, three boys!"
"Wow, three boys! You must be busy."
"Three boys? Are you going to try for a girl?"
"What, no girls?"
These types of statements have given me the best opportunities to tell people about my only daughter.
Just today, I talked about Felicity to three different people: the gal at Burger King who commented to us as we were leaving, the lady who cut my hair, and a woman at the bank. I even pulled out a photo album I carry around with me to show one of them her NILMDTS pictures.
I'm proud of my daughter. I want people to see her pictures. I want people to know about stillbirth and to have a face to put with it. I want her short life to have meaning.
I don't know what kind of impact I'm having when I share with these people, but talking about Felicity helps me. Each time it gets a little easier. And when I tell people I have a daughter in Heaven and they see a smile on my face, I hope that they wonder why I'm able to smile about it. Sometimes they even ask or comment about how hard it is and I'm able to share a little more.
Felicity may not be with us, but she continues to have a legacy.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Four Months Old
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Busyness in Photos
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
They complete me.
Actually they don't, but they do make me feel a bit more organized. (Emphasis on "feel" because making lists doesn't actually make me more organized unfortunately.)
But a girl can hope.
Here goes:
1) Mother's Day was nice, even though my own mother was traveling to Michigan to be with my grandma who had been admitted to the hospital that morning. I still haven't heard much about what's going on. So anyway, it was a nice day, surrounded by my boys, husband, dad, and brother. I thought a lot about many of you who are struggling through Mother's Day with empty arms!
2) Nursing is going better, thank God. (And I have!) The issue (see my comments from my last post) is not totally resolved, but it's improving. Thanks for your prayers!
3) Both big boys are fighting colds and coughs and I'm praying Caleb doesn't get sick.
4) I'm finally sending (or getting ready to send) a wedding gift that's almost a year late.
5) I had an Usborne books party on Saturday which was fun and I'm super excited to get the books I ordered! Birthdays and Christmas are definitely taken care of this year!
6) I feel old - I've been dealing with back and hip pain (common after having a baby) that's most painful at night and it just plain makes me feel old.
7) Still considering painting inside my house. That's as far as I've gotten. It's gonna happen, I just don't know when.
8) We have 20 days left of school! Woohoo! Ethan got his standardized testing scores back and he did awesome - scoring in the 99th percentile!
9) The weather here in MN is bizarre, but normal, I guess for Minnesota. A week ago it was 80 degrees. Then Saturday we woke up to snow on the ground. Sunday was beautiful and now it's wet and rainy again. I am glad we haven't planted the garden yet, considering this past week we've had multiple nights of hard frost.
10) I'm not totally sold on this new blog template, so it may change again.
Have a good week!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Life has been incredibly busy here for the last few weeks and I'm hoping that in a week or so, I'll feel like I can breathe again. In the last two weeks alone, we've had standardized testing to do, a field trip, a garage sale, illness, a baby dedication, and our AWANA carnival. Amongst all the busyness, I've been dealing with a breastfeeding problem. Anyone who knows me, knows how much I cherish nursing my babies. Yet I've had this issue with all three of them and each time it's painful and heartrending because I want to be able to enjoy each nursing session. Instead they are painful and I begin to doubt whether nursing will ever be a pain-free experience again.
Because I was feeling low last night, it got me to thinking more about Felicity. I mean, I think of her daily, especially now that Caleb is in my arms. Seeing him grow has only caused me to miss Felicity more. So last night's tears were for her too.
I'm finding that in this second year of grief, many of my blurry memories from Felicity's death and afterwards are becoming more clear. Often times as I remember them, I feel like I'm living them all over again, but with more feeling since it's no longer clouded by shock. The pain feels so fresh and raw often times. Caleb pulls me back to the present with his smiles though. And then, even though it still hurts, I can smile and thank God for ALL His blessings. But, oh, how I long for Heaven most days....


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Today I read about the 3 mistakes that all investors make or are tempted to make.
The 1st one is called "availability bias" which is where an investor who has seen markets crash or has been burnt in a market meltdown, feels that since it has happened in the past, it is likely to happen again.
The 2nd is "loss aversion" where one sells too soon to prevent a loss. Behavioral scientists tell us that a person is sad more when he loses $10,000 than happy when he gains $10,000.
The 3rd is the "probability neglect" where human beings tend to focus on the worst-case scenario and not the likelihood that such a scenario will come to pass.
There is one more namely "disposition effect" in which one closes a position that has appreciated a bit while holding on too long to those that have depreciated.
Being the eternal optimist I am, I have never been the victim of the 1st and the 3rd.
I probably have been down the 2nd; I say probably because I do recall, as I do not for 1 second, dwell on my weaknesses and failures.
I have come to realize that being an active investor is perilous to one's financial well-being and takes a toll on one's mental health. It is easy to succumb to the temptation being a trader when you have gains of 3 5/16 times monthly income one day followed by loss of 3 7/16 times monthly income the next day. And once you go down that slippery slope, there is no escape from financial ruin. A man could be 60 and may have started afresh several times over a period of decades, each time resolving to beat the odds and trying to time the market, failing and ending up bitter, cynical and distrustful.
I believe that the value of my portfolio is hardly influenced little by market events and is driven almost entirely by other investors getting too greedy pumping up the market or getting too fearful and bailing out of markets. I continued to believe that even as I watched a complete reversal of the market yesterday from slightly negative to hugely positive on plans to link the Hong Kong and Shanghai bourses. And that "market event" today was subsumed by Wall Street's rout on Thursday.
I am so pleased that I have learned to be immune to these tragedies as I read and re-read Buffett's quote "I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."
Research has it that people who received frequent news updates on their investments earn lower returns than those who get no news. Now, I cannot imagine not being current with financial news but if could not contain myself from reacting to news, I would want to make it difficult to act. I would go with the Dogs of the Dow or SPY or a low-cost ETF. No fund manager is going dance to the market's tune or march to his personal or firm's drum with my money.