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"…laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt."
—Tacitus, The Annals
"The government is best which governs least."
—attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but likely from Henry David Thoreau
Although yesterday's online protest against the NSA's mass surveillance program was dubbed "The Day We Fight Back," a closer look at the official press release for the event reveals that it was far narrower in scope than the surveillance regime that threatens the rights of privacy, association, and free speech worldwide. Here at the Fourth Estate Watch (FEW), we believe journalism should focus on the difficult questions—not the easy ones—and a holistic analysis of the #TheDayWeFightBack suggests that mass surveillance won't end anytime soon. While we stand in solidarity with those protesting the NSA's surveillance programs (which clearly threaten 1st Amendment and 4th Amendment rights, among other things), we believe that any protest movement truly intent on ending mass surveillance must understand that (a) the issue encompasses far more than simply Internet or metadata surveillance and (b) Congressional action alone will not solve the problem. "The Day We Fight Back," unfortunately, failed to recognize either of those principles.
By focusing almost exclusively on Internet/metadata surveillance, the organizers behind the protest omitted from consideration those methods of surveillance that do not rely upon our use of the Internet, including but not limited to: aerial surveillance of an entire city; next-generation video surveillance involving license-plate recognition software; and facial recognition surveillance. None of those methods require the government to track our metadata or online activities, but all of them pose a threat to our 1st and 4th Amendment rights just as much as Internet-based surveillance. "The federal government is making progress on developing a surveillance system," The New York Times reported last August, "that would pair computers with video cameras to scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces" (emphasis ours). Notice the surveillance tactic there does not require analysis of metadata but rather focuses on something far more fundamental: the contours of your face. The above-mentioned methods of surveillance, in fact, almost certainly impact more people than the metadata-surveillance because everyone walks around at one point or another in an open, public space—but not everyone uses the Internet (despite what the technologists may tell you).
Those who participated in "The Day We Fight Back" would do well to remember that those without an Internet connection were not included as part of "we." The press release for the event made this clear. Brett Solomon, Executive Director of Access, is quoted as saying "a free and open internet is a critical prerequisite to preserving our free and open societies" (emphasis ours). David Segal, Executive Director of Demand Progress, speaks of the NSA's surveillance as posing "the greatest threat to a free Internet, and broader free society" (emphasis ours). Josh Levy of Free Press stated that the programs "attack our basic rights to connect and communicate in private, and strike at the foundations of democracy itself" (emphasis ours). The quotes above reflect a fairly narrow perspective whereby "democracy," a "free society," and our ability to communicate are viewed as things that can only be achieved online. This is nonsense. While we understand internet connectivity and usage rates are proliferating worldwide, at no point in human history has the Internet been a "critical prerequisite" for anything—let alone a free society or a democracy or our ability to exchange ideas freely. Humans have been exchanging ideas and struggling for freedom since the Stone Age. And by focusing "The Day We Fight Back" on Internet-related surveillance, as opposed to surveillance in general, the protest's organizers did not even consider the other surveillance methods outlined above that impact those who are unable to plug in and log out.
Speaking of which: who are those who cannot get online, who do not generate metadata for the NSA to trawl through, who do not have a Twitter account to add their voice to the "global conversation"? The answer is simple: the poor. Take a look at this report on American internet use from the U.S. Census Bureau, which illustrates in Table 3 that 35.6% of those earning under $25,000 per year have no internet connection whatsoever. By contrast, 51.8% of those earning more than $150,000 per year are connected to the Internet "at home and somewhere else from multiple devices." Inequity between the internet-connected haves and have-nots is even larger when one looks at the issue globally. According to the World Bank, the most internet-connected countries in the world (i.e., the places in the world that generate the most metadata for the NSA to collect) are also the richest: countries with an internet connectivity rate above 80% include the U.S., Germany, Belgium, France, Germany, Korea, Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway. Those with low connectivity rates are among the world's poorest: Sierra Leone (1.3%), Somalia (1.4%), Mali (2.2%), Afghanistan (5.5%), Iraq (7.1%), and Pakistan (10%). Put another way, NSA surveillance of internet-based activities impacts the Global North far more than it does the Global South. In other words, the richest people in the world's richest countries are generating the lion's share of the world's metadata and internet activity. This social media map of Twitter from the Oxford Internet Institute, for example, clearly demonstrates that most Twitter users are from the Global North. The results here are obvious: those who have most to lose from NSA surveillance of internet-based activities are, relatively speaking, the world's elite. Yesterday's "The Day We Fight Back," then, was apparently unconcerned with those who cannot access the internet as the protest was focused exclusively on internet-based surveillance.
In addition to espousing a closed-circuit conception of "we," yesterday's protest advocated an equally narrow conception of what it means to "fight back." A cursory glance at the official protest website makes that clear: "fighting back" meant nothing more than calling or emailing a legislator in support of the USA Freedom Act (full text of Act here). Numerous reports already indicate that the present Congress is dysfunctional and can barely pass any legislation, let alone one on an issue as critical as the intersection between surveillance and 1st / 4th Amendment rights. The notion that "fighting back" should be reduced to contacting a legislator who at some indeterminate future date may support a (likely watered-down) final piece of legislation should strike even the most ardent NSA protestor as absurd, laughable, and ineffectual. Here at the FEW, we believe that expecting Congress to resolve the issue of NSA surveillance in an adequate manner is to wait for a dream deferred. Indeed, have we not been down this very road before where Congress investigates surveillance activities and then explores possible legislation? (Answer: yes). And even if the USA Freedom Act passed through the Congress and the Senate for President Obama's signature (the same President Obama who presided over the expansion of these very surveillance programs to begin with, by the way), that still would leave the NSA and other federal agencies free to engage in surveillance practices that do not involve the use of metadata such as facial recognition and aerial surveillance technologies.
This piece should not be interpreted as an attack on the movement behind the protest. Our previous reporting on NSA-related issues demonstrates that we are staunchly against the current surveillance programs, and we are in alignment with the general proposition that NSA surveillance must "stop." Unlike the protest organizers, however, we recognize that many in the world—particularly poor people and people countries—do not use the internet and do not produce nearly as much metadata as the Global North. The rights of association, speech, and privacy for those who do not have Internet access matter as well. In short, we should fight against those methods of surveillance that infringe upon all of our rights—not just those of us who are constantly plugged-in to the Internet—and we should recognize that waiting for Congress to solve the issue is not so much fighting back as giving up.


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Gers's dense network of rivers spreads out fan-shaped across the department flowing from the south, northwards to the river basins of the Adour and Garonne. Their flat glacial valleys punctuate a gently rolling landscape said to resemble Tuscany. Fields golden with wheat, maize and sunflowers in summer are speckled with orchards and vineyards, and stone villages glowing warm in the sunlight. Remnants of mills and wash houses along the river banks are a picturesque reminder of days when wood-cutting, flour and paper-making were important, and washday chores a lively communal activity.
Today Gers's rivers are a wonderful leisure resource for Gersois and visitors alike.
The Baise, Gers, Adour, Save, Arros and Osse are all main fishing rivers. Some small boat fishing takes place in the south. Brown trout can be found in category 1 stretches of the rivers and rainbow trout in category 2. Coarse fish such as pike and perch, roach, carp, tench and gudgeon all abound.
There's water skiing and wake boarding on the River Ardour in summer at Cahuzac-sur-Ardour. Canoeing and kayaking are popular ways to get close to the countryside. Find centres at Masseube, Samaton, Monferran-Saves, Mirande and Gers Piacenza. Canoe from Bonas to Beaucaire or Beaucaire to Valence on the Baise. Glide past the silent tree-lined banks populated by herons, kingfishers, ducks, moorhens and coypus. ( www.canoesdebeaucaire.com tel: (00 33) 5 62 68 15 95).
Only the River Baise is navigable for vessels of any size. Follow the historic route taken by flat bottomed gabares which carried cereals and flour, wine, Armagnac and fertilisers downstream until the beginning of the twentieth century. Start at Valance-sur-Baise and cruise following a winding route punctuated by locks and past the Cistercian abbey of Flaran for 65km to Lot et Garonne. You can hire a motor boat yourself without a permit or take a cruise from Condom where Armagnac eau de vie traditionally began its journey to the port of Bordeaux.

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Looking up at the night sky, our eyes can see stars and planets and other distant objects. This transparency sometimes gives the impression that Earth is surrounded by emptiness. In reality, the area around our planet is teeming with activity.
This week on the podcast I talk with astrophysicist Geoff Reeves about some of the activities going on just above our heads; specifically, the acceleration of particles in a region known as the Van Allen radiation belts. Extending from as low as 60 miles, to as high as 60,000 miles above the surface of the Earth, the Van Allen belts are regions of high-energy, fast moving particles, that follow the lines of the Earth's magnetic fields (so they look like a donut-shaped shell around the earth).
|NASA/Van Allen Probes/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientists have been interested in understanding how the particles in the Van Allen belts are accelerated, in hopes of one day being able to predict when and where the belts will be most harmful to satellites. In 2012 NASA launched the Van Allen Space Probes to study these peculiar regions. In the July issue of the journal Science, Reeves and a group of colleagues published an analysis of some of the earliest data sent back by the Probes. The results confirm the presence of a previously unobserved mechanism for accelerating the particles.
Listen to the podcast to find out what Reeves and colleagues uncovered, and what it tells us about the universe.


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Gifts to St. Petersburg Opera Co. can be made by check, credit card, securities, cash, or via donor-advised funds. Please make checks payable to St. Petersburg Opera Co. and mail to PO Box 238, St. Petersburg, FL 33731. All major credit cards are accepted. To donate via credit card, CLICK HERE TO DONATE ONLINE or call Susan Hellman Spatafora at 727-823-2040, ext. 2. For more information, click on the link below to download a pdf copy of our Season 13 Donor Information Handbook.
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Gladding-McBean (GMcB), California's oldest and largest pottery, was founded in Lincoln, CA in 1875 by Charles Gladding, Peter McBean and George Chambers. As with many other pottery manufacturers, they specialized in architectural tile, brinks and other building materials in support of the California housing boom of the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1923, the company acquired a majority holding in Tropico Potteries, which gave GMcB access to additional plant and mining facilities, as well as new product lines. At the time of the acquisition, Tropico's focus was faience and floor tile production. More importantly, Tropico's location in Glendale gave GMcB a stronghold in Southern California. The expanded company continued to produce ornamental tile for commercial and residential buildings. In 1924, garden pottery was added to the product lineup, with products being sold through wholesalers or pottery yards. As demand for clay building materials increased in Southern California, GMcB continued their acquisition spree in the 1920s, purchasing Calco Tile Manufacturing, Pomona Tile Manufacturing, Northern Clay Company, and Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company (and several others!).
Like all other pottery producers in the area, the 1927 Southern California real estate crash and the subsequent 1929 stock market crash started to hit the company's bottom line and demand for building materials dramatically declined. By 1931, the company was teetering on bankruptcy and needed to find new products to bring to market. In 1932, seeing the success of Bauer Pottery and Pacific Pottery's consumer pottery, they began experimenting with making dinnerware, but found that in testing the pieces crazed badly. They were able to resolve this issue by switching to a patented clay body type called "malinite." Malinite's one fire clay body resisted crazing, a point the company used in marketing the wares. Adding to their production capability, GMcB purchased the west coast properties of American Encaustic Tiling Company. As part of that purchase, they acquired Prouty tunnel kilns essential for the efficient production of dinnerware in 1933. American Encaustic had purchased Proutyline Products of Hermosa Beach in 1926. GMcB established the Hermosa Beach plant as the headquarters for their tile production under the trademarked Hermosa Tile brand until 1937.
With the launch of their first dinnerware line in 1933-34, nine colors were approved:
The company began producing dinnerware under their Franciscan Ware brand in the Glendale plant in 1934 under the leadership of Frederic J. Grant. His wife, Mary K. Grant, a former art director at Macy's Department Store in New York City, is credited with the design of the art pottery and dinnerware sets produced by the company.
The first colorware line, El Patio, was initially produced in eight glazes (White, Golden Glow, Redwood, Glacial Blue, Mexican Blue, Tahoe/Dark Green, Flame Orange, and Yellow). GMcB quickly followed with their Coronado ware line in 1935 (both artware and tableware), featured in both matte and gloss glazes and characterized by a swirl pattern around the rims of the pieces. Coronado was produced between 1935-1954. Other notable dinnerware lines of the 1930s include the solid-colored Montecito, along with pattern derivatives of that line, and the 1940 introduction of Metropolitan.
The dinnerware lines were marketed under the "Franciscan Pottery" name, which was officially changed to "Franciscan Ware" in 1936. GMcB is also credited with marketing the first "starter sets" of dinnerware in 1936: four place settings bundled together in a single package. The sets were popular as wedding gifts. A wide variety of accessories and additional place setting items were available as open stock. By the end of its long run in 1954, El Patio was glazed in approximately 20 different colors. By 1937, GMcB introduced patterns to the El Patio line, including Padua, Del Mar and Mango (1937) and Hawthorne (1938).
1937 was also notable for GMcB: They purchased Catalina Pottery, the pottery division of the Santa Catalina Island Company. The purchase included all of the master molds, existing inventory, "Catalina Pottery" brand name, and plant assets. GMcB continued to produce many of the dinnerware pieces and added new table- and decorative ware under the Avalon, Aurora and Encanto art ware lines. The dinnerware line was relaunched as Catalina Rancho, which they produced at the Glendale plant from 1937-1941. The GMcB Catalina pieces can be differentiated from original Catalina pottery by the backstamps and marks: GMcB often included a "Made in U.S.A" mark, and "Catalina Pottery" brand; original Catalina pieces are marked "Catalina Island Pottery." GMcB Catalina pottery is not as collectable or desirable as original Catalina pottery.
Facing hard times, GMcB sold the Franciscan division to English pottery company Wedgwood in 1979. By 1984 all Franciscan ware was being produced in England, specifically the popular Desert Rose (1941-) and Apple patterns, still made today. GMcB exists today as a producer of clay tiles, terra cotta, garden pottery and pipe.


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Pheromones can play an important role in attraction. Pheromones are naturally produced chemicals that are created when people sweat. The inability to produce enough human pheromones may make attracting a mate difficult. Pheromone sprays have long been touted as a way to improve the chances of finding you attractive. However, increasing the chances of finding a mate depends on using the sprays properly. Here are some tips for making pheromone sprays work for you.
Use the Spray on the Right Areas of the Body
Pheromones can be sprayed like you would spray perfume. Spray them on the warm areas of the body. These areas help to keep the pheromones active. Typical areas of the body that can be sprayed in include the wrists, neck, behind the ears, chest and throat. Women find greater success when they apply the spray to their thighs and ankles.
Spray Concentrated Formulas on Clothing to Diffuse the Scent
Spraying clothing helps to make the pheromone last longer. However, doing will dampen the scent. If you are spraying a light concentration on clothing, you will need to apply twice as much. A heavily concentrated formula is better suited for clothing as it will allow the right amount of pheromones to be detected by others.
Do Not Over-spray
Not producing enough pheromones can decrease your chances of attracting someone. However, too much pheromone can also repel a person. You should use one spray on the intended area. The top pheromones for men usually lasts for up to twelve hours. If you find that people are stating that you have a peculiar odor, you used too much. You may want to mix the pheromone with perfume or try spraying it onto your clothing. You may also consider trying a pheromone spray that works better with your body chemistry.
Moisturize Before Applying Pheromones
Keeping your skin moisturized is a good way to help the pheromone scent last longer. Ideally, you should use the spray after you shower or apply a moisturizer. Before spraying your skin, make sure the moisturizer is fully absorbed by the skin.
People have sworn by the effects of pheromone use for several years. While they will increase your chances of attracting someone, it is important that the sprays properly. These tips will help to ensure you get the best use out of your spray.


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After my heartbreaking realization last summer that Disgraceland (Chicago) had closed its doors, I am thrilled to have found a new love in resale: Second Time Around. I stumbled upon this store in downtown Philly earlier this week, and treated myself to a heap of "new" clothes for decent prices. My purchases included a gorgeous red winter coat, two sassy dresses, and cute tops that fit great in the chest and shoulders. I left Philly a very happy lady.
The salespeople at Second Time Around were friendly and they sent me off with a punch card that can be used at all of their locations (there's one in Chicago too!). The person who rang up my purchases had terrific hair.
I loved Philly, and walking around in the city reminded me of how well I am fed--literally and metaphorically--by urban, cosmopolitan epicenters. I need to move! The Reading Terminal Market across from the Marriott Downtown was exquisite. I ate there three times and had a dolma platter (pretty good), dal, rice and samosas from Nanee's Kitchen (AMAZING), and a vegetarian hoagie with sides of "tuna" and "chicken" salad from the vegetarian deli stand (DIVINE). Some fast city fortune led us to a restaurant on 13th called Zavino where they were hosting a friends and family night and invited us to dine. I cannot believe the complementary feast we had including two varieties of beets and (get ready for this!) a ricotta-kale ravioli. I wrote in my comment card that as a kale prostitute, I loved that the ricotta did not overpower or compromise the subtleties kale offers in the way of flavor. I meant it too. The cab and pinot were like a key party in my mouth.
The last thing I want to say is this: Black Truffle Guacamole. Had it at El Vez restaurant.
The combination was so fucking amazing it knocked me up, changed me forever, brought tears to my eyes. Some people call it the city of brotherly love but to steal Kate's words, I'll call it the city of sisterly orgasm.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
A Polyamorous Thrifter and Epicure
Posted by Little Ms Whatshertights at 6:09 PM
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- molly t. said...
"key party in my mouth"! You are amazing.
- January 6, 2010 at 3:15 AM
Having gone to a woman's collage right outside of the city I can attest that the sisterly tag is true.
- June 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM
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Hello all! Over the past few months I have gotten an excessive amount of nail mail (on which I have spent an outrageous amount of money), with an impressive number of new-to-me brands. One of the brands I happened to buy after my enormous 'Christmas' haul was Shleee Polish. I managed to snag five gorgeous polishes that I thought I would share here today. And the best thing about every single one of them? You could probably get away with one coat for each! Although I did two for all of them to make sure I didn't have any visible nail line. And just a note…I'm going to apologize ahead of time for the varying skin tones. I had to do some correcting to get better color accuracy for the polishes (as I often do), and this means I had to sacrifice the actual color of my skin in some photos 😛
Anyway, first up is Starkiller, a deep orange with gold shimmer. And I'm not sure if it was the lighting or my imagination but I kept seeing tiny flashes of purple too. Starkiller is supposedly a thermal and is supposed to shift from orange to a darker red-orange, but I didn't notice any change after using hot and cold water. So unfortunately you don't get any photos of the color differences.
Next is what I thought would hands-down be my favorite of the bunch: Fangorn Forest. It is a stunning emerald green holo with holo microglitter. It doesn't sound terribly unique, but I personally don't own anything else like it and so I fell in love.
Siding Spring was probably the most 'problematic' of the five, but that isn't really saying anything because it was still opaque in two thick coats. It's another stunner too. A shimmery pink-lavender base packed with light blue microglitters makes the overall effect a very sparkly cross between periwinkle and lavender.
Life on Mars is a rusty red microglitter polish with an added bit of shimmer and holo microglitter. The overall effect is extremely eye-catching and moved this one into my top three of the group, even though I thought it would be one of my least favorites.
Last is the one that surprised me the most. Jakku is a polish densely packed with gold and coppery flakies with some additional microglitter thrown in. While flakies are growing on me, I still in general don't like them. But I bought this one because the swatches looked pretty and it was inspired by The Force Awakens (so was Starkiller, by the way). I was more than pleasantly surprised when I saw it in person though. It's so shiny! And it got even better when I put it on my nails. It went from expected bottom of the bunch to my absolute favorite of the five. My housemate agrees, and put it on her nails the day after I got it.
And that's all of them! I can't believe how different everything was to my expectations. Knowing my own polish tastes, Fangorn Forest should have easily claimed the number one spot and Jakku should undoubtedly have been at the bottom. But Jakku did manage to push Fangorn Forest to the number two slot, with Life on Mars taking number three. Definitely not what I expected at all!


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The Washington
Department of Transportation has erected four highway signs
alongside SR 20 and SR 153 in the Methow Valley of Okanogan
County to alert drivers to the danger of collisions with deer.
The six-foot
yellow and black square signs caution drivers about deer near
the road. The signs also display the number of deer killed annually,
this year to date and the estimated dollar value of vehicular
damage incurred in the collisions.
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will remain in place for three years. At that time, WSDOT will
access the signs' effectiveness in reducing the number of deer
on the results, the project will be discontinued, extended or
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Klaus is a feature length animated film from The SPA Studios.
The SPA Studios are using digital tools to reimagine the charm of classical 2d animation blended , with unique cutting edge digital techniques that adds a fresh volumetric look, lighting and texturing that people have to come to expect in family movies.
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The SPA Studios is currently looking for a Pipeline & Tools Developer for our current production (Klaus). Experience with Python is essential and an understanding of Toonboom Harmony/Maya and (or) Nuke would be an advantage in understanding the development of tool utilization and progression for Klaus. The role is available immediately will be based in our studios in Madrid, Spain.
? Develop tools and scripts to exchange graphic elements between various DCC applications
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Film Synopsis:
Lessons in Forgiveness, Kindness, and Teamwork!
Do Unto Brothers:
When the Penguins are captured by the evil Cavitus, Jason and Michelle jet to the rescue! But they fall into the trap of a Jelly Worm Hole and must learn the power of teamwork to save the fearful flock!
Oh, Mercy!
Zidgel delivers the Crown Jewel to the Gator King of Mercy-Falls, but his blunder causes him to smash it to smithereens. Thrown in the royal slammer for his mistake, will His Highness forgive our captain and grant him a second chance?
Between an Asteroid and a Hard Place:
The Rockhopper is zapped by a Glue-Ray gun and is trapped on an asteroid with the evil cohorts. When the hideous minions and our crew work together, Michelle learns the value of kindness – but will the lowlife Cavitus?
Check out the rest of the "3-2-1 Penguins" Series!
"3-2-1 Penguins: (1) Trouble on Planet Wait-Your-Turn"
"3-2-1 Penguins: (2) The Cheating Scales of Bullamanka"
"3-2-1 Penguins: (3) The Amazing Carnival of Complaining"
"3-2-1 Penguins: (4) Runaway Pride At Lightstation Kilowatt"
"3-2-1 Penguins: (5) The Doom Funnel Rescue"
"3-2-1 Penguins: (6) Moon Menace on Planet Tell-A-Lie"
"3-2-1 Penguins: (7) Save The Planets"
"3-2-1 Penguins: (8) Blast in Space"
"3-2-1 Penguins: (9) Escape From Planet Hold-A-Grudge"
"3-2-1 Penguins: (10) Comedy of Errors! Meet the Penguins"
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What are Good Diabetic Menu Plans?
Need a good diabetic menu plan?
For most diabetics eating right isn't a choice – it's more like it's part of their lives. Without the proper diet and exercise the diabetic's body will begin to suffer damage and the end result will be a rather short and miserable life – not a pretty picture!
Common Diabetes is a very serious non-communicable disease that is currently spreading over the United States and the entire world.
One Simple Rule for Your Diabetic Meal Plans
If you want to have a great diabetic menu plan, you only need to follow one golden rule – avoid anything that is colored white.
Breads and potatoes are examples of this main rule. These foods are stuffed with complex sugar and will drive your blood sugar level to the sky. White sugar, and anything that has white flour in it are also items that you really need to stay away from.
That means the following should not appear on your diabetic menu:
- Donuts
- Buns
- Cupcakes
- Anything Sweetened with white sugar
- Bagels
The bottom line is that a healthy diabetic menu isn't that far off from the popular Atkin's diet. Carbs and sugar are the enemy, while protein, vegetables and limited portions of fruit are the answer.
Why Diabetic Menu Plans are SO Good!
If you haven't tried eating and following the rules on this page, perhaps you should. You might be doing yourself a massive favor. Not only will you start to feel better, your skin will likely become more clear, you'll sleep better, you'll have more energy, you'll be more relaxed, you'll feel lighter.
There's a whole bunch of benefits to eating like this even if you are a non diabetic. So, don't be afraid to mix things up in the kitchen and try eating like a diabetic.
Key Elements of Diabetic Menu Plans
Lean protein is one of the first things to consider when putting together a diabetic meal. So this means, that chicken, turkey, pork and fish are in, and beef is out. That's not to say that beef can't be served on occasion, but generally speaking, sticking to the leaner meats will be the perfect way to start.
Remember to add in some good veggies to your meals, but skip the temptation to add the potato – because it's white! Another important thing to keep in mind here is that your veggies can be sliced up and eaten as snacks throughout the day if you find yourself getting hungry.
Milk and cheese are all good, but try to stick to the low-fat options as much as possible. Yogurt is another great diabetic friendly food that can be added to any meal, and combined with some fresh berries makes for an excellent dessert or snack.
Dessert and Sweets:
There are a number of different ways that you can sweeten your food without using white sugar. You need to be careful here not to trick yourself that while not using white sugar you may be using something that is equally refined and damaging to your body.
Fruit is a really good option because it's sweet and also delicious and has not been processed or refined. When you are choosing fruit, berries are some of the best because they are naturally very high in antioxidants.
Once you have weened yourself off of sugar and salt addiction and your sense of taste has started to come back you'll be amazed at how flavorful and sweet some fruits really are! I remember from my experiments with diabetic meal plans that cherries were so super sweet and full of taste that I almost couldn't eat them. Once you have transitioned to a more natural way of eating, it's almost like you'll have a chance to rediscover how food tastes again for the first time – truly amazing!


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For a little project I'm doing I needed a way to do Bluetooth LE with my Netduino Plus, and I found the nRF8001 by Nordic.
Turns out it's a nice chip with good documentation (as most Nordic stuff tends to have).
However, I found out there wasn't a .NET library written for it yet!
So I decided to write one and put it on GitHub for everyone to use, because I can't imagine other people aren't interested in using this great BLE device.
It may be a little premature, seeing how most functionality isn't implemented yet, but I'm expanding this library every time I need more functionality from the nRF8001. For now at least, it is possible to get the device initialized and connect to a peer device.
I hope someone can make good use of it!
Link: https://github.com/m...s/nrf8001-netmf


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This is a follow up to my first post regarding The Project for a New American Century (PNAC). Apparently, though not surprisingly, McCain has ties to this group whose sole purpose is to help make the United States the sole superpower in the world through any means necessary.
John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars. The credo of this group is "the end justifies the means," and the end of establishing the United States as the world's sole superpower justifies, in its estimation, anything from military control over the information on the Internet to the use of genocidal biological weapons. Over its two terms, the George W. Bush administration has planted the seeds for this geopolitical master plan, and now appears to be counting on the McCain administration, if one comes to power, to nurture it.
The blueprint for this "new order" was drafted in February 1992, at the end of the George H.W. Bush administration when Defense Department staffers Paul Wolfowitz, I. Lewis Libby and Zalmay Khalilzad, acting under then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, drafted the Defense Planning Guidance (DPG). This document, also known as the "Wolfowitz Doctrine," was an unofficial, internal document that advocated massive increases in defense spending for purposes of strategic proliferation and buildup of the military in order to establish the pre-eminence of the United States as the world's sole superpower. Advocating pre-emptive attacks with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, it proclaimed that "the U.S. must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests." The document was also quite clear about what should be the United States' main objective in the Middle East, especially with regard to Iraq and Iran, which was to "remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region's oil." The Wolfowitz Doctrine was leaked to The New York Times and The Washington Post, which published excerpts from it. Amid a public outcry, President George H.W. Bush retracted the document, and it was substantially revised.
John McCain's connection to PNAC can be traced back to before its formation in 1997. In fact, he was president of the New Citizenship Project, founded by Kristol in 1994. This organization was parent to PNAC, and served as its chief fundraising organ.
McCain also worked cooperatively with PNAC and Wolfowitz in attempting to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. In 1998, he co-sponsored the Iraq Liberation Act—drafted by PNAC—which decreed "regime change" in Iraq to be U.S. policy, and which appropriated $97 million in U.S. military aid to the Iraqi National Congress (INC).


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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Help, I need a new background and matching banner
Now that I have proved to myself (you can tell I'm a mom) that I am committed to blog land, I feel like I can actually have something special. It is so much fun finding kndred spirits who come from all over. I enjoy finding new blogs and reading the ones I have come to love. I do regret giving my blog my name, though. There are so many quaint names I could have chosen but who knew. I had read the first issue of Artful Blogging and was sold. Most of them were named after their creators and therefore, I thought I shoud do the same. Drats! There I go thinkin' again. Anyway, I was wondering if I could leave the addy the same but name my blog something else. What do you think? Please comment and please mention any pros and cons. Thanks a bunch!
Don't forget to leave a comment on my 100TH BLOG POST GIVEAWAY. I will draw a name Saturday, Oct. 4th. Good Luck!!
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Tammy, you could totally call your blog something different than your url. I've seen it done that way a few times. :o)ReplyDelete
If you go to my blog and scroll all the way down to the bottom, you'll see a box that says "Blogs by Danielle using images from Shabby Miss Jenn" - what I had done was I bought a package from SMJ and found I was in over my head. SMJ recommended Danielle to me to put all the elements together. However, Danielle also has a lot of nice packages too. Either way, it's a win-win!
You absolutely can have a different blog name than your website name. I wish I had done the same thing.
Lots of ladies have two different names. Go for it.
xo Cath
I just found you from Miss Harris.ReplyDelete
I'm new to the blog world. I know how difficult it is to find free or affordable designs. It took my hubby several try's to put my background script in. Originally I found a designer...in the end I choose my own photos to create my banner for my blog. When it comes to a web page for my business I'll go back to the professionals. The best advice I got...REGISTER YOUR DOMAIN!
Good Luck:)
Have a *Sweet* Day!
Tammy here's the link on my blog about your giveaway..ReplyDelete
There are so many people who do this and prices vary. I go to Gail at Shabby Cottage Studio for just about everything...
Tammy, I think Gail does really nice banners...you can see her work hereReplyDelete
Hi, Tammy! Thanks so much for visiting my blog, I'm glad that you did! :)ReplyDelete
You asked who designed my blog, and I used Darcy from Graphically Designing . com. There's a butterfly button of hers on my blog you could also click on to get to her page. I loved working with her! She has all price points, so check it out.
Also, I know several bloggers that left their blog address the same, and just changed the blog name. Just do a post with the name change and let your readers know to change it on their blog rolls also! Very easy!
I'm off to check out the rest of your blog now!
Hi Tammy,ReplyDelete
Yes I have seen that done too....however I like your blog name! Hope you had a good weekend!
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Just putting in an "I third this" for Gail at Shabby Cottage Studio. She does lovely work!ReplyDelete
Yes, if you want to name your blog something else I think you should go for it. You can always have your name somewhere on your banner so that people still know it's you. You can also put a little note in your sidebar so that people will be aware of the change. Good luck and have fun!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Thanks so much for visiting my blog Tammy and what an amazingly small world it is! I absolutely adore your blog but understand your wanting to be unique. ;-)ReplyDelete
The link you left from where you "borrowed" your banner and background is magical - wow what a find!
I'm a graphic artist by night (jewelry designer by day, hah!) and have such an admiration for true talent which they have.
I think your name is quite whimsical as an image of pixie dust comes to mind when I read your name. I've known others to have a different blog title on their banner than their blog address so it's really up to you and what you're comfortable with.
Thanks again for visiting and I'll be back to see what happens. ~Sharon
Shame on me I missed it your celebration!! Congratulations!!! woohoo!!! Wow when you celebrate you go all out!!! Thank you for stopping by Wren Cottage :) and for sharing so much on your adorable blog, I HAVE to try the recipe for the pie!!ReplyDelete
I love Tiffany Jane's banners, she's at Beyond the Vintage Path on my "favorite places to visit" :)
Have a great week sweetie!!
Hugs~*~*~*~*~* Madai
I love your banner and background, but if you want a change, Gail from www.shabbycottagestudio.blogspot.com made mine using bits of my work and she is VERY affordable and great to work with!ReplyDelete
Hi Tammy,ReplyDelete
My blog is Pigment of Your Imagination, but my address is my name. I was afraid people wouldn't find me by the name of my business.


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When You are
When You are strong
you take your grief
and teach it to smile
When You are brave
you overcome the fear
and help others to do the same..
When You are happy
you see beauty in
the tiniest of things
and are thankful
for that blessing..
When You are loving
your own pain
does not blind you
to the pain of others...
When You are wise
you know the limits
of your wisdom
when hope for tomorrow
means more to you
than yesterday's mistake..
You are a true human being
when you admit
there are times
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You are alive
You are growing
when you know
what you are..
But not what you will become
You are truely honorable
when you find your honor
is to honor others..
You are generous
when you can take
as sweetly
as you can give..
You are humble
when you do not realize
how humble you are..
You are surely free
when you are in control
of yourself and do not
wish to control others..
you forgive in others
the faults you condemn
in yourself..
when You walk in beauty
you are at peace
with who you are not
you do not need
a mirror!
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What's real?
If you scour the net for sites like this you are seeking something.
Think of a monkey, looking through its primate eyes at the world that is the creation of another primate. Some things it will work out, most of what it sees remaining beyond its comprehension.
Its reality is composed of natural things, which it knows better than you or I, and created things which fail explanation.
Such is our condition.
In fact, our condition is worse.
We have been weaned off our understanding of natural things and largely do not understand how the created things that form our reality work.
If your computer breaks, can you fix it?
Your central heating?
Your car?
Can you fix the myriad of societal problems that cause you to lock your doors or pop a poison suicide pill that you've been told will make you better?
We have been gifted complexity, only to discover that it makes us ignorant, makes us sick, and yet it is so utterly complex that we cannot see how to unravel the whole construct and get back to what really matters.
The spider's web has its sticky threads everywhere you look, and its hard to break free.
And you want to.
Most of us do.
Most of us want to live a life that is free of worry, free of fear.
The conditioned herd think they want "stuff", because what was there in place of "stuff" has been stolen.
Good will.
The conditioned herd equate freedom from worry with money, because what was there before money has been lost in the mist of time and overwhelmed by the false reality.
We live in interesting and confusing times.
Our masters are driving us towards the endgame and the position of the finish line is known only to them. The rules of the game have been devised by them. The knowledge we think we have is knowledge controlled and allowed by them. The sides we take, indeed the very idea of "sides", are controlled and manipulated by them.
Everything you and I think we know, think we have a grasp of, is the progeny of thousands of years of their close and ordered control.
I used to think I was educated.
Now I know I am ignorant.
The game is fixed.
The table is tilted.
Quite simply, we haven't got a clue.
Our ignorance is monumental.
Our stupidity a matter of record.
We still allow ourselves to be manipulated into hating each other, killing each other, arguing and scrapping over "stuff" and "isms" and "faiths" instead of being what we should be.
If, like me, you ponder the future and have a remnant of instinct you know great things are afoot. The world is in flux, the cosmos is changing, our planet and everything on it is in motion and even those of us that seek knowledge and understanding look for answers in an electronic library that is the creation of those we seek to undo.
Even the idea of such momentous impending change is promulgated therein.
And still we don't know why.
Still we are monkeys, failing to comprehend.
Still we follow whomever is given to us to follow.
Still we seek leaders and hang on to those that offer "HOPE" and "TRUTH" and swallow whatever bullshit they serve to us.
The peasants of France believed in the revolution.
The peasants of Russia believed in the revolution.
The peasants of the USA believed in revolution masquerading as "change".
Obama the Obamination.
The peasants seeking "truth" believe in revolution.
A committee of other Blavatsky-ites?
These scum are spewing their spunk all over your face and laughing (if you will please excuse my crudity).
The answer?
Taking control of knowledge.
Holding hands.
Starting again.
There is an opportunity now for humanity to do these things.
Can we take it?
We monkeys?
Olive Farmer xxx xxx xxx
(As the red tailed dragon approached the olive farmer hugged his trees and murmured soothing words:
"The end is just a beginning" he said.
And "Fear nothing".
And the tree was comforted, and bore fruit.
Let those that have three eyes, see.)


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The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Dir. Colm McCarthy
Scr. M. R. Carey
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine, Glenn Close, Sennia Nanua
Review By Greg Klymkiw
Twelve-year-old Melanie (Sennia Nanua) wakes up in a dank cell, hops out of bed and places herself into a wheelchair. The door opens. Two heavily-armed soldiers train their guns upon her as she's muzzled and strapped securely - treated like a kind of pre-teen Hannibal Lecter and wheeled into a room full of other similarly-secured children.
It's time for school.
Melanie's high I.Q. and vivid imagination is more than enough to earn her the distinction of being teacher's pet to instructor Helen Justineau (babe-o-licious Gemma Arterton). The crusty head of security Sgt. Eddie Parks (still handsome and oddly rugged Paddy Considine) treats the child like a psycho monster and has no use for her. Mad scientist Dr. Caroline Caldwell (a very creepy - naturally - Glenn Close) has been performing a whole whack of grotesque experiments upon the kiddies, but has some very special plans for this child - a girl "with all the gifts".
It's no surprise that Melanie's favourite story is "Pandora's Box" since she clearly holds much in the way of "evil" that she wants to release in order to cling to the "hope" she most definitely can provide to the world.
There is, you see, a fungus. It has spread like wildfire and turned most of the world into "hungries" (as they're referred to by the mean-ass Sarge).
And what precisely are they hungry for?
Human flesh, of course.
|She's perfectly normal, though she wants to eat people.
Melanie is a "hungry", but she's definitely not like the others and Doc Caldwell has her eye on the child to provide an eventual cure/antidote.
Every single time I hear about and/or see a new movie with zombies (or any crazed undead afflicted with a "virus/disease/fungus"), my heart begins to sink and my eyes start to glaze over, but when I see something like The Girl With All The Gifts I get all hap-hap-hap-hap-happy again. Yes, there's life left in old chestnuts and Colm McCarthy's film of writer M.R. Carey's screenplay (based upon his book) is proof positive of this.
As is my wont, I knew nothing about the movie before seeing it, and I'm especially grateful to have entered into the film's world in total ignorance. Once hell breaks loose, and oh, it does with horrifying abandon, we're plunged into a living Hell of ravenous, bloodthirsty zombies.
|She's not interested in eating anyone at the moment.
The military base falls to thousands of carnivorous creatures and our protagonists - child, teacher, doctor and soldier - begin begin a terrifying danger-fraught odyssey across a topsy-turvy blood-soaked United Kingdom. Director McCarthy handles the proceedings with all the skill and style required to keep us on the edge of our seats. There's one sequence in particular where the "humans" must wend their way through hundreds of "sleeping" zombies which not only provided me with all the necessary bowel gurgles I enjoy during horror pictures, but also inspired the unloading of some heavy matter. (If you see the movie in public, please wear adult diapers.)
This is one scary-ass movie.
That the film eventually creeps into been-there-done-that territory during its final third is a wee bit disappointing, but the picture ultimately delivers on plenty of shocks, chills and thrills and yes, manages to infuse its occasional stock moments with the kind of humanity that finally raises things well beyond the "stock"-in-trade of such items.
An interesting side note is that half of the film's £4 million budget came from the BFI Film Fund (one of their largest investments - ever) and Creative England (the largest investment it's ever made). These are the kind of government-infused cultural initiatives I can support wholeheartedly. I'm assuming/hoping the bureaucrats left the filmmakers alone to make the movie they wanted to make. As a Canadian, I can sincerely hope we see similar government-funded cultural support from Telefilm and its ilk.
THE FILM CORNER RATING: ***½ Three-and-a-Half Stars
The Girl With All The Gifts premiered at the TIFF 2016 Midnight Madness series. It is a Saban Films release and is playing theatrically at The Royal Cinema in Toronto on the following dates:


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Elk, California, where the forests and meadows meet the sea
The place we call home
Community Services & Organizations
Greenwood Civic Club
December 2011
The Greenwood Civic Club was founded in 1917 by a group of wives and mothers in the town of Greenwood dedicated to culture, beauty, and community service. Members established a library and focused much of their attention on the welfare of the town's children. The Club contributed to the women's social life, as well. They gathered to have coffee and cake, sometimes bringing their "fancy work" and other times working together making quilts or rag rugs. Not to be missed were the wildly popular monthly Whist games.
In the 1960s and 70s, the group went by the name of the "Greenwood Hobbyists" and the interest of the members turned to arts and crafts, as well as the preservation of the area's history. To this end, the Club published several books on the subject written by local authors.
In the mid 1980s, the group took back its earlier name – the Greenwood Civic Club – and once again focused its activities and fundraising to benefit the community and its youth. The Club created a scholarship program for graduating Elk students, provided ongoing support for the Greenwood Community Center and its various children's programs, and helped sustain the Elk Volunteer Fire Department and the ambulance service.
In 2007, the Greenwood Civic Club incorporated and became a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization in 2008. The first male members were welcomed in 2011. The Club's purpose is to promote, publish and preserve the history of the town of Elk, California and to support Elk community organization, activities and residents. It is led by a five-member volunteer Board of Directors, elected by the membership. Members meet bi-monthly, January through November, and enjoy numerous social events throughout the year. Membership is open to anyone interested in pursuing the Club's purpose and committed to enriching the town of Elk and providing service to its residents. Dues are $35 per year. Please click here for a membership application.
The Civic Club sponsors two annual events: a Soup Supper before the Annual Town Meeting and the Elk Rummage Sale. The Club also sells postcards and note cards of historical photographs, three books on Elk's history, a cookbook of recipes from past and current residents, cotton afghans depicting Elk landmarks, Greenwood/Elk decals, and Elk-themed gift bags. Items are variously available at the Greenwood State Beach Visitor Center/Museum, Queenie's Roadhouse Café, the Elk Store & Deli, and the Artist's Collective. Items may be also be ordered by mail. For a complete list of items and an order form, please click here. Additional funds are generated from sales at Great Day in Elk and the Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair.
Proceeds from the Club's fundraising efforts are intended to benefit the Elk Volunteer Fire Department and ambulance service, the Greenwood Community Center and its children's programs, a scholarship fund for graduating Elk students, and other local organizations and projects, and respond to community welfare needs and emergencies.
Members also volunteer time and goods to the Elk Volunteer Fire Department's Summer BBQ and the Greenwood Community Center's Great Day in Elk celebration. The Club co-sponsors and moderates ElkWeb, sponsors the Elk Community List, maintains a disaster supply container, assists at memorial celebrations, donates and decorates the annual Christmas tree located at the Greenwood Community Church, and collects food for the Food Bank during the holidays.
You can support the Greenwood Civic Club's efforts to serve the community by sending tax-deductible donations to the Greenwood Civic Club, PO Box 282, Elk, California 95432. The Club encourages residents to "shop local," at home and on the coast, but recognizes that folks often need to shop online. If you shop at AmazonSmile, Amazon will make a donation to Greenwood Civic Club.
2019 Board of Directors
Dorothy Cong, President
Donna Drolet, Vice President
Candy Skarlatos, Treasurer
Cynthia Doll & Susan Thomas, Co-Secretaries
Sarah Penrod, Director-at-Large
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PO Box 282
Elk, CA 95432
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My Story: Catering to My Man Makes Me Happy
I grew up in a family where both parents worked outside the home. Nevertheless, it was a rather traditional upbringing in suburban Canada. My mom was in the kitchen every day, and my dad, well, he came home and drank beer. I was the only girl with three brothers. I couldn't tell you if my mom enjoyed taking care of us and my dad. She rarely complained but never admitted she was happy to do it either. Being an Asian wife, I guess she felt it was just part of her duty.
I was raised to be smart, strong and independent — and at the same time, traditional, sweet, girly and soft. So when I settled down with a man, it was natural for me to want to take care of him.
I remember during the first six months of our relationship my mother would call me in the evenings and asked what I cooked for him. It made her happy to hear that I was doing these things — the cooking and cleaning — and honestly, it made me super happy too.
Every morning, I woke up early to make him breakfast and pack his lunch. After long hours of working at the bank, I cooked dinner and did all the cleaning. I would greet him with a glass of orange juice, without him even asking, because it made him smile. I hemmed his pants or folded the laundry while we watched TV on the couch together. Not once did I raise my voice or swear at him. I didn't do these things because I felt it was my duty. I just loved making him happy, because it made me happy.
None of my girlfriends thought it was a healthy relationship. Apparently, I wasn't a 21st-century woman and I stood against everything the women's rights movement has been fighting for. They mocked me and called me the The Robot. It was the age of girl power and in their eyes, I had none. To them, a solid relationship is when everything is 50/50. To me, a solid relationship means both parties are happy, even if that looks like 30/70 or 100/100.
No, I don't hate feminism. I'm a tough, confident and intelligent woman. I'm also proud to say I love catering to my man, both in and out of the bedroom. Deal with it.


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Evolution Is Not Inconsistent With Christianity
Today, a link to an important essay by The OFloinn, of which I was reminded by Mark Shea.
This essay cannot be missed and must be bookmarked. It must be on hand to give to your science pals who triumphantly proclaim that evolution, "selfish" genes, or other observations and speculations of biology "prove" the Christian/Jewish Bible is in error. I don't think you will find a more succinct account of what orthodoxy actually says anywhere.
That is all: go and read.
Now modern genetics does not falsify the Adam and Eve tale for the excellent reason that it does not address the same matter as the Adam and Eve tale. One is about the origin of species; the other is about the origin of sin. One may as well say that a painting of a meal falsifies haute cuisine.
Still, there are some interesting points about the myth of Adam and Eve and the Fall. Not least is the common late-modern usage of "myth" to mean "something false" rather than "an organizing story by which a culture explains itself to itself." Consider, for example, the "myth of progress" that was so important during the Modern Ages. Or the equally famous "myth of Galileo" which was a sort of Genesis myth for the Modern Ages. With the fading of the Modern Ages, these myths have lost their power and have been exploded by post-modernism or by historians of science. Before we consider the Fall, let us consider the Summer. No. Wait. I mean the Summary.
Aside: it took me several minutes to realize what "IOW" meant. Then, as I tweeted earlier, for years I thought "LOL" was "lots of luck."
P.S. Don't skip the footnotes.
P.P.S. Flynn also points to a Feser article on same subject.
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Oh dear.
Apologetics – how can the evidence be rationalized to fit in with a particular theology. Something you would never do unless you accepted that particular theology in the first case.
There is no way starting from first principles you'd end up trying to rationalize a creation myth into scientific evidence.
Why the Christian myth? – why not the Chinese legend of Pangu? His expansion in his egg is clearly figurative for the modern theory of cosmological inflation, and his fall to the earth the seeding of a barren planet with organic molecules from space. Do you see how preposterous this is – but when it comes to Adam you pretend its perfectly rational!
Just some questions I suppose.
Am I right that the essence of this post is that we are all the descendants of the first "rational" being – ie Adam.
Does anyone exist on earth now who is not a descendant of this person?
Approximately when in history do you think the last non-rational person died off? Leaving only descendants of Adam?
The genealogy in Luke giving the relationship between Jesus and Adam consists of 76 generations. Is this figurative? Figurative for what? Or was all of humanity seeded in approximately 76 generations back from the birth of Christ?
What do you think is the average generation time in this list?
Do you REALLY believe in people living multiple centuries? Or is that figurative, too? Figurative for what?
What is the Fall? – is it rationality? Or is it also Figurative – figurative of what?
Was Adam rational when he was created, or only after the Fall? If after it then it would seem that rationality was not the purpose we were created for – correct?
Everyone is a descendant of Adam, but isn't the important issue for the Church not the descent, but Original Sin. Is Jesus dying for our rationality, or our taint?
What happened when one of those non-Adam descendants died – are they up for Judgement or only Adam's seed?
Oh I give up. It is all just so preposterous.
But I am expected to take this type of story telling seriously because it is RELIGION.
Love the cheeky footnotes. And the refreshing tone overall. The folks in 6000 AD will chuckle at our modern thoughts. LOL!
The first thing one should note in the referenced/linked essay is the author has chosen to refute comments from another particular author–the linked essay's author does not address the overall science in total.
That is a typical approach people use when they are trying to appear like they're addressing a subject while they're really evading some significant elements of the substance of the subject. Global Warming Alarmists do this sort of thing routinely, for example. Sites like Watts Up With That call them on this sort of thing routinely.
The "Out of Africa" theory of human development is supported by:
– DNA findings, and
– Geological findings, and
– Archeological findings (past 2-3 thousand years especially), and
– observed Language patterns (much more recent history)
For example, geneticists found that patterns of DNA mutations indicate a near-extinction event about 70,000 or 80,000 years ago. Geological findings reveal that volcanic Mt. Toba (India) exploded, about 74,000 years ago, sufficiently powerfully to induce a "nuclear winter" that disrupted growth cycles & by extension life planet-wide. That's one very tidy correlation of geology & DNA. (the discovery of this correlation is a story in & of itself–allegedly the geneticist that concluded the near-extinction event occurred knew nothing of geology…but while waiting to meet with someone at a university happened to stop in a lecture where Mt. Toba's eruption was being discussed, where he noted the timing & magnitude aligned with his DNA findings–a serendipitous "Eureka" moment)
For the overall flow of human development, based on DNA, the Bradshaw Foundation is a good interactive video reference: http://bradshawfoundation.com/journey/
More findings are readily available, such as: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080221-human-genetics.html
FOR THOSE OF YOU so inclined to believe a mythical story such as the Adam & Eve & the Garden of Eden (which numerous Christians, including numerous R. Catholics, never believed as anything more than a fable with a morality theme) you'd be well-served to get a copy of Alan Dundes book, Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore ( http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Writ-Oral-Lit-Folklore/dp/0847691977 ), then with that and your favorite bible, start reading Dundes' work…and check out the references in your bible. Basically his book is an ongoing comparison of matching texts from different stories & while he makes the comparisons, don't trust him & see for yourself. The patterns of story after story being plagiarized from earlier stories are unmistakable.
Again, Dundes' book is just a guide one can use to cross-compare the relevant stories & see the near-verbatim passages between different stories that you probably thought all this time were original, unique, works.
For those of you needing to dispute science to sustain your beliefs–recognize that's a form of a search for proof hardly different from Thomas having to see & touch the wounds in Jesus to see what was standing before & talking with him. Proof, or flimsy philosophical attacks on proofs challenging one's beliefs, is prima facie evidence of doubt in the faith one espouses to have. True Faith does not require proof, or, the rebuttal of science pointing to a contradiction.
LASTLY, noting the reference to Galileo — one can read the actual transcripts, translated into English, of trial records & more at*: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/galileo/galileo.html That's a worthwhile thing to do for anyone interested in Galileo's views, the R. Catholic Churches views, etc., which are almost certainly not what you think they are if all your source material is stuff like the essay Briggs linked to.
The Pope's Papal Condemnation noted, very first sentence, that Galileo's theory of the Earth orbiting the Sun was heretical–and we now know today that that infallible pope was wrong. Here's what he said: "Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vaincenzo Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years, were in the year 1615 denounced to this Holy Office for holding as true the false doctrine taught by some that the Sun is the center of the world and immovable and that the Earth moves, and also with a diurnal motion…and for replying to the objections from the Holy Scriptures, which from time to time were urged against it, by glossing the said Scriptures according to your own meaning…and in this divers propositions are set forth, following the position of Copernicus, which are contrary to the true sense and authority of Holy Scripture" That's via the above link, or just go to: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/condemnation.html
With the benefit of hindsight, and science, we now know that Galileo was correct and the Roman Church was totally wrong–and the Roman Church based its view on its interpretation of scripture.
Which just shows, if the pope, with all his devotion & wisdom & entourage, can't interpret scripture correctly relative to observable phenomena, who can you trust? Galileo's trial was in 1633…some 1,700 years after a Greek, Eratosthenes, figured out the circumference of the Earth, by the way…so its not like the Church didn't have time to sort out observable facts…clearly it didn't — by ignoring them and discounting & suppressing all evidence to the contrary. Self-induced ignorance.
What's interesting is reading the original documents, which almost nobody does anymore, then reading ex-Pope Ratzenberger's comments on the Galileo trial.
What one observes is an ongoing pattern of revising the facts of religious theory & doctrine. And not just by the Roman Church, pieces like this essay endeavor to do the same thing.
For anyone interested in the technique applied, Steven Hassan has a good book: http://www.amazon.com/Combatting-Cult-Mind-Control-Best-selling/dp/0892813113 (focus on the part discussing 'thought-stopping techniques').
* Famous trial records going back to Socrates to the O.J. Simpson trial, and more, are available at: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm
a) Periscoping of geneologies was quite common. You find the same thing in the clan geneologies in O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees. In periscoping, you only hit the high points, so to speak, like a map that shows only major cities along a route.
b) Prior to an established belief in an afterlife, lifespan was equated with virtue. Long lifespans were then symbolic of virtuous lives and showed how in the Good Old Days, people were more virtuous.
c) Dogma insisted long before a Catholic monk discovered genetics that all men now living are descended from one man. When the last prehumans died off cannot be pinned down, since intellection does not leave fossil remains. But it is pretty clear in that Neanderthals, to take one example, showed virtually no change in their toolkit over more than a hundred thousand years; nor are there any unambiguous indicators of art.
d) There is a distinction between biological humans and metaphysical humans.
e) That "descended from one man" does not mean "descended from only one man" is fairly simple logic.
Oh come on, Chinahand, surely you can see the consistency between the Pangu story and the Big Bang theory. LOL.
Of course, some may argue that Pangu is Aristotle's prime mover.
Christianity is not consistent either…http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820685,00.html
What has "Out of Africa" to do with the question of whether there was one man out of that bunch of Africans whose genes now run in all of us? This is a well-known statistical effect.
In fact, there are two well settled cases based on genetics: the so-called mitochondrial "Eve", from whom all men today are not only descended, but descended in strict matrilinearity. And from another era, the so-called X-chromosome "Adam" from whom all men are descended patrilinearly. Now, despite the metaphorical use of the names by scientists, there is no reason to suppose that either one is the ancestor of metaphysical humans, since rationality leaves neither fossil nor genetic remains.
Galileo's trial was in 1633…some 1,700 years after a Greek, Eratosthenes, figured out the circumference of the Earth, by the way…so its not like the Church didn't have time to sort out observable facts…clearly it didn't — by ignoring them and discounting & suppressing all evidence to the contrary.
What has Galileo's trial got to do with the circumference of the Earth? This was well-known not only in Galileo's time, but also in the Middle Ages and earlier.
What observable facts do you suppose were available to people in the 17th century? All the facts then known supported geostationary models. Bellarmine wrote to Foscarini that there would be no problem resolving scriptural passages that seemed to be contrary, provided that the contrary was known with certainty.
Could you cite the evidence that was suppressed?
The Late Modern insists on reading all texts with such remorseless and prosaic literalism, as if for example a "genealogy" were something prepared for membership in the Mayflower Society. Remember, Augustine wrote a millennium and a half ago that the scriptures were figurative, but might be literal in part. Late Moderns just don't know how to deal with myth and poetry.
At least Charles Babbage was writing tongue in cheek when he wrote to Tennyson:
"In your otherwise beautiful poem one verse reads,
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.
" … If this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death. I would suggest [that the next edition of your poem should read]:"
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment 1 1/16 is born.
"Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry."
At least I hope he was writing tongue-in-cheek.
yet their are many christian who refuse to believe in evolution
Heck, there are many Christians who refuse to believe in Christianity.
Do you still believe that the Sun is the center of the universe and is immovable??? That is what Galileo was teaching according to your link!! (snicker)
The argument was much more interesting than you and the Church haters make it out to be. If not for Galileo insulting the Pope he probably would never have been in jail.
Not much different now with Gorebull Warmers calling for the execution and imprisonment of Sceptics and gubmint and educational institutions enforcing the Gorebull Warming theology!!
"Finally, Galileo was admonished to cease campaigning until he had proof. Galileo didn't force the Church off the fence, but in an astounding coup he made it seem he had. In the guise of an "impartial" book – which a new Pope, Urban VIII (a friend of Galileo's), had encouraged – he wrote a best-seller demolishing the old Earth-centred astronomy. When it was too late to do anything but accept the situation gracefully or overreact, the Pope decided he could not brook such a usurpation of authority.
This was no abstract contest between science and religion, but something far more personal and political. Galileo had stolen the Pope's prerogative – an unforgivable insult. Neither science nor religion received more than lip-service at Galileo's trial. He was sentenced to house arrest for life and forced to renounce Copernicanism publicly."
Galileo is just one of several incidents used by atheists/agnostics to try and prove the Catholic Church, and other major Churches, were anti-science and promoted unscientific beliefs. The Church has been the savior of Science and Knowledge more than once in history. Notwithstanding particular incidents no worse than many in modern times, like the Gorebull Warming corruption of science and the Evolution Bad Joke, the Church has been a good friend of science.
It is necessary for God to be logical and to have created a logical RULES based universe to fit with the Bible. Attacking Science would undermine their own Manual. As a good example of the opposite, Allah in Islam is said to be unknowable and not fettered by rules or logic and not to be understood by man. It is one of their big lies that they are science friendly and made many advances when it was their slave races who accomplished virtually ALL of their contributions.
If the universe is based on whims and unknowable power, how would science work???
I notice Neanderthal has been brought up as usual. With the modern geneticists sequencing the genes it has been found that Neanderthal, at least the sequences thy have, all fall within the range of HUMAN!!! Yeah, the claims are still that we interbred, but, the reality is that Neanderthal is as human as pygmies, Qua-Zulu, and Mormons!!
"Based on the comparison of modern human mt DNA and that taken from the Neanderthal, evolutionists have argued that the "Neanderthal line" diverged from the line of "hominids" leading to modern humans about 600,000 years B.P. without contributing mt DNA to modern Homo sapiens populations. This strongly implies that Neanderthals were a different species from modern humans.
However, the above noted interpretation is not scientifically justified. Lubenow (1998) has pointed out that the use of a statistical average of a large modern human sample (994 sequences from 1669 modern humans) compared with the mt DNA sequence from one Neanderthal is not appropriate. Furthermore, the mt DNA sequence differences among modern humans range from 1 to 24 substitutions, with an average of eight substitutions, whereas, the mt DNA sequence differences between modern man and the Neanderthal specimen range from 22 to 36 substitutions, placing Neanderthals, at worst, on the fringes of the modern range. (Neanderthals are Still Human! Dave Phillips, Impact Vol. 323, May 2000) "
I would also point out that we mostly see the majority of the genome being filled with junk. Those comparisons are for a tiny part of the genome. Recently there have been several different looks at the so-called JUNK DNA that are changing geneticists minds about just how much of it is actually useful and not junk!! (Hint, very little, if any, is probably junk!!)
"That's a rather different way of thinking about genes—and evolution.
I get this strong feeling that previously I was ignorant of my own ignorance, and now I understand my ignorance. It's slightly depressing as you realize how ignorant you are. But this is progress. The first step in understanding these things is having a list of things that one has to understand, and that's what we've got here."
Let me know if you would like to see some alternative information from less than nutjobs about the problems with stratigraphy and the rest of evolutionary scientology.
All of the metaphysical talk and re-interpretation is unnecessary.
Science only knows what it can test, and it excludes divine intervention by necessity. To believe in an all-powerful Creator is to believe He is capable of intervening at will in the genetic code of His creations or in any other manner.
I'm a computer scientist and I profess only college-biology 101 knowledge of genetics, but from reading I understand the dates for Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosomal Adam are based on at least two unverifiable assumptions: that the first humans were not created with chromosomal variations; and that the genetic mutation rate is constant.
Even putting that aside, no reinterpretation of the Biblical creation event seems necessary since Genesis specifies at least 3 places where genetic alterations were likely introduced by the Creator, and a fourth by somewhat more traditional means:
1) When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden and became mortal.
2) When Cain was marked.
3) When God retroactively limited man's lifetime to ~120 years.
4) When the Nephilim (Sons of God) interbred with human women.
Since Genesis makes it clear that there were possibilities for genetic variation outside of standard mutation rates, is it not the case that Genesis simply isn't being contradicted by genetics?
@ KuhnKat: Do you still believe that the Sun is the center of the universe and is immovable??? That is what Galileo was teaching according to your link!! (snicker)
THAT IS FALSE — the link is an English translation of the trial transcripts; the quote I referenced was the then-Pope's condemnation of Galileo's then-allegation that the Earth orbited the Sun.
The clue you somehow missed that this was the Popes–not G's–position, is the title, in very large headline letters: Papal Condemnation (Sentence) of Galileo (June 22, 1633).
@ Ye Old Statistician:
Q: What has Galileo's trial got to do with the circumference of the Earth? This was well-known not only in Galileo's time, but also in the Middle Ages and earlier.
I Mentioned that in response to Brigg's undefined reference to the "Myth of Galileo" — there are many such "myths" and many are recognized, wrongly, as fact. KuhnKat, above, tries to perpetuate one of them, for example: "Finally, Galileo was admonished to cease campaigning until he had proof.", says KuhnKat. But the trial record is explicitly clear, as the then-Pope noted: "The proposition that the Earth is not the center of the world and immovable but that it moves, and also with a diurnal motion, is equally absurd and false philosophically and theologically considered at least erroneous in faith … imposed upon you by the Commissary of the Holy Office to give up the said doctrine and not to teach it to others, not to defend it, nor even to discuss it; and your failing your acquiescence in this injunction, that you should be imprisoned." The Pope didn't give Galileo any chance or accommodation to pursue the then-heretical theory that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe, much less pursue it until he, Galileo, had proof. The then-Pope actively forced Galileo to cease & desist entirely; no room or accommodation was granted to pursue any finding that would contradict official church dogma.
Q: What observable facts do you suppose were available to people in the 17th century? All the facts then known supported geostationary models.
RESPONSE: As noted, a Greek in B.C. figured out the Earth was a sphere; and he & others recognized the Earth's shadow on the moon for what it was, then. This knowledge was not lost by the 1600s. Copernicus and Galileo both observed in the orbital motions of the planets. Of this they, and others, were certain. Those facts are facets of models that are NOT geostationary. The statement, "All the facts then known supported geostationary models" is thus nonsensical.
As noted, a Greek in B.C. figured out the Earth was a sphere; and he & others recognized the Earth's shadow on the moon for what it was, then. This knowledge was not lost by the 1600s. Copernicus and Galileo both observed in the orbital motions of the planets. Of this they, and others, were certain. Those facts are facets of models that are NOT geostationary. The statement, "All the facts then known supported geostationary models†is thus nonsensical.
That the Earth was a sphere was well known in the middle ages and later and has nothing to do with whether this sphere goes around the sun or vice versa. They did not calculate orbits so much as positions on the sky in declination and right ascension. All such positions were predicted by the geostationary Tychonic and Ursine models with greater accuracy than by the Copernican model. Even the Ptolemaic model (which was discarded after the discovery of the phases of Venus) did as well as Copernicus in most cases.
Against geomobility were the lack of parallax in the fixed stars and the lack of Coriolis effects. There was also the Objection of the Winds, and a number of other items. None of Galileo's observations were key to these problems. (He did suggest that by the Copernican theory there ought to be parallax with optical doubles where a large bright star was real close to a small dim star. Like everyone else, he assumed this meant one was close and the other distant. He closely observed one such pair, recorded in his notebooks, and found no parallax. He therefore kept his mouth shut about it and continued to suggest it as a way of confirming the mobility of the earth.) What was needed were some conceptual breakthroughs like the idea of inertia, universal gravitation, et al.
A summary of the history is here: http://www2.fiu.edu/~blissl/Flynngs.pdf
does the Prosecuting attorney and the prosecution in general ALWAYS state the same views as the President or the Governator or the Mayor???
Yes Ken, you fell into another fallacy. The fact that the Pope was POed and allowed the prosecutors, who were a different faction, take down Galileo does NOT mean what was stated or presented in the trial is what the Pope either believed or stated. This is where many fallacies start and are perpetuated. ASSUMPTIONS!!!
By the way, when did I mention God's view?? I only mentioned the Pope, the Church, and Galileo!!! The Church is SUPPOSED to have the same views as the Pope. I would point to the US Church in modern times who have gone quite liberal to show that the Church can have quite different views from the Pope.
Ye Olde Stat…
" Even the Ptolemaic model (which was discarded after the discovery of the phases of Venus) did as well as Copernicus in most cases."
Miles Mathis talks a lot about Heuristics. Much of modern Science is more heuristic than well grounded theory and this explains why it generally matches well to the observations. Phlogistone is another instance of this!!
It shouldn't be surprising to us at this point in history that we are ALWAYS wrong but sometimes getting closer!! For some reason many of those who teach brush these inconvenient details under the rug! 8>)


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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Stitch Along: Week 15
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A few rows here and there on some socks and my friend's pussyhat....
Back at school, was not a good day yesterday...we had a fire drill and after that I was in a horrible amount of pain for the rest of the day...like on the verge of tears....but there were a lot of people out, so I didn't feel as if I could leave....came home and went to bed......today...massive earache! But body pain has subsided.....
How about you? And why didn't anyone point out the horrible typos in last week's title? Sheesh!
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Organyc tampons; 16 for $6.99The ingredients used to make my feminine hygiene products aren't something I think about all the time. Okay, so I think of them never. I have no idea what they're made of -- I guess because I assumed they were cotton or some type of natural material. And I'm a sensitive skin person. I break out in hives at the drop of a hat. This should be important to me.
Truth is, most pads are made of a combination of cotton and rayon, which I like having in my clothes but I'm not sure what that means for such an intimate spot. The outer covering of the absorbent part is often made of a man-made material, basically a form of plastic.
Out on the street the other day, marketers were passing out samples of a new 100% cotton organic pad, tampon, and panty liner called Organyc. It's sold at CVS, Target, Meijer, and a lot of the other big stores, though I never noticed it.
As usual, it comes down to price. These organic products are more expensive, but just slightly. I popped down to the drugstore just now to comparison shop: A 16-pack of Organyc tampons sell for $6.99, while my regular brand gives me 20 for $5.99. Plus, I like my usual brand and know they work. And I've never had a reaction from them before, so that tells me something too.
The selling point for me is that they're biodegradable. Over the course of a lifetime, women use almost 6,000 tampons, enough waste to fill a bathtub with material that won't completely return to the earth. All those women, and all those bathtubs. Food for thought.
Would you pay more for an organic feminine product?


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