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There is a day in August that I yearn for: when crickets begin to
chorus, when the light shifts and the nights go cool. There it is, the turn of summer, and with it the urge to make ready once again for the next season. As surely as Monarch butterflies are once more migrating to Mexico and my neighbor repeats his annual stacking of a third cord of firewood, I lift the lid of my cedar chest and breathe in the scent of wool.
The cedar chest is a memory cave. In a moment akin to meeting dear friends after a long separation, I peer in and fondly survey a collection of scarves, sweaters, and mittens dutifully folded away at the first heat of summer. At least eight weeks have passed without wearing wool! My impatience with late July's heat and humidity fade. In that heap of color and texture is the promise that sweater weather is imminent. Here begins my autumnal ritual of renewing my acquaintance with my three-season companions. I'm caught up in the joy of reunion and, on closer observation, practicality. What? Missing buttons? Spaghetti sauce on the elbow of my best pullover? Holes in my cashmere scarf?
Taking good care of my mostly wool sweaters is as kinesthetic a pleasure as knitting them. Mending and washing is to tactile satisfaction what a long conversation is to renewing an old friendship; it's the tea and cookies of a tête a tête with a trusted confidante. With both people and sweaters, you bump into the same elements of memory and context: how the friendship or sweater started; and how they are companion and witness to the events of your life.
The tools of my sweater spa care are basic to most households: quantities of lukewarm water, a mild fragrant liquid soap, needles of several varieties, short lengths of yarn, favorite scissors, and a mesh drying rack.
Before my sweaters get their fall bath, I check them inside and out. With spread hands I trace the fabric for pulls, worn spots, and snags. Moth holes and dried dabs of food on elbows sometimes appear too. I run my fingers along the interior seams to look for weak spots, and then across the inside of the sweater for pulled floats of stranded yarn. Picking up a needle here, a crochet hook there, I settle into the comfortable hum of thoughtful mending, one sewn stitch and new button at a time.
One Fair Isle sweater I surveyed recently recalled to me the artistry and high standards of the knitter, now passed, who improved any pattern she knit and was a generous teacher. Saggy buttonholes were stitched firm, and buttons checked for fastness. Little colonies of "pills" were snipped away at wear point, and in doing so, my annual homage to her work is complete.
An eighteen year old cabled sweater I knit with the first yarn made from my flock's natural colored wool is still deeply textured and handsome. The raised ribbed cuffs and hem are slightly flattened from years of wear and seams are spreading open so I make reinforcements to both areas as I marvel at the yarn's continued vitality and the random slubs of dark and light wool that fleck the rich, mocha tone.
My barn sweaters are my sentimental favorites, imbued with bits of hay from late spring chores along with the embedded tales and tribulations of my shepherding career. I pre-spot soiled areas with a pH balanced soap, smooth out and repair snags, and reweave ends that have been teased out by wear and as my mind wanders back to scenes of late night lambing, bundled up in this good wool.
Stitch, sew, weave, snip. Crickets chirp, shadows play across hills.
The quiet of my task is matched by the stillness of the late summer afternoon.
Hand-washing hand-knit items is likewise a deliberate and straight-forward process. It is both soothing and the safest way to keep them clean. Using my washing machine as a sink, and then using the spin cycle to extract the water saves me muss and fuss and speeds up the drying time. I fill the washing machine halfway with lukewarm water and a dash of mild soap then agitate the water briefly to make a sudsy bath.
Next I gently submerge a sweater or two in the water and leave it to soak for a time. The machine is turned off until I'm ready to spin out the water using the gentle cycle. To rinse, repeat this step without soap. I then arrange the sweater on a drying rack or heavy towels and shape it to the original measurements. When the sweater is almost dry I turn it inside out to finish drying, sometimes by air and often on the warm cycle in the dryer for several minutes. "Bloomed" in this way they look almost vivacious and are finally ready for the next season.
Once the sweaters are folded and neatly replaced in the chest I have a sense of readiness and with it, the satisfaction once again of having paid attention to that most important aspects of the rhythm of my seasons: having made time to take good care of my friends.


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Singer Josh Groban has axed an upcoming gig in Pennsylvania due to a scheduling conflict.
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Organisers Live Nation have now announced the concert has been axed because it clashes with another commitment.
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Team Sweden Eyes Medal Round
JAY PEAK - With the Ice Hockey Women's World Championship just a couple days away, Sweden's women's hockey team is working hard. The team, housed at Jay Peak's golf course condos, is getting prepared for the eight-team tournament that starts Saturday at UVM's Gutterson field House. The tourney will feature the best eight women's hockey teams on the planet.For Team Sweden, it's another chance to keep building a program that has become a contender for the medal rounds over the last few years. The team is generally acknowledged as a top five club on the world ratings chart.The upcoming tournament gives "The Lady Crowns," as they are nicknamed, a shot at going to the next level of elite women's hockey.The Newport Daily Express got a chance to speak with two players with American connections; both attended the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Goaltender Kim Martin, now 26, is a graduate of the Minnesota school and plays professional hockey for a club in the Russian hockey league. Her focus at this point in time is the Swedish national team and where her team will end up. "I got started playing hockey by going against my older brother," Kim said. "I improved over the years and was recruited by the University of Minnesota, which offered me a scholarship. It was a good experience for me. My English was good before I attended the school but now it is much better."Her English is perfect and her career has been a good one. "My family has been very happy about my being a hockey player," she continued. "In fact, my parents travel around the world to watch me play and will be there in Burlington this weekend. I want to play as long as I can. On this team, I am the fourth oldest. I have put 12 years into our national teams and it has been a great experience."Being a goalie is a tough job and Kim has paid the price. "I have been injured many times playing the game I love," she said. "I have had knee surgeries and always have an injury of some sort. You learn to play the game with injuries."Sweden has emerged over the past few seasons as a team to take seriously and Martin can see the difference."The leagues in Sweden have become much better. Instead of two good teams, now there are seven or eight. More girls are playing the game and are starting younger. The country is just taking it a lot more seriously."Pernilla Winberg, the 23-year-old left wing, is a senior at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. She has a history of being a big time goal scorer and one goal in particularly is very special. "In 2006 we played the U.S. team for the silver," she recalled. "The game went to a shootout and I was able to score the winner. That was really exciting."Pinella has played ten years in the Swedish program and counts on playing a lot more hockey for her country. "We are getting better and to be better we need to play the best, like Canada and the U.S."Sweden's head coach is Niclas Hogberg. Hogberg has coached hockey and soccer for over 20 years. He coached men's teams for most of that time before switching to the women's teams. He has been the Sweden head man for two years now. "As far as coaching men or woman, I'm always asked about that," he said. "The thing is, hockey is hockey. The system we teach is the same for male or female. We try to play aggressively and attack, not just sit back and defend."Hogberg has played and coached at many hockey facilities and he is impressed with the one at Jay Peak. "We arrived here late at night so we couldn't see the ice of the buildings. The next morning, when I got up, I was shocked at how beautiful and new everything was. It's an unbelievable facility in a beautiful area. We can train and skate and have meals and lodging all within walking distance. It allows us to focus on hockey and not worry about the other things like travel and meals and the other distracting elements. It reminds me of places at home."The coach sees the progress his country is making and his job is 12 months a year. "There really is no off season. More kids are getting a chance to play early and they play more games against top level competition and that is a big difference. When in the past we have tried to stay close to teams, now we are aggressive and play for the win. We don't come to tournaments to just show up; we play to win a medal."With renewed energy and positive spirit, Sweden heads to the World Championship with confidence. Tonight at Jay, they look to improve and learn as they scrimmage against the 2010 Olympic Gold Medal Canadian team.The contest is open to the public and will commence at 6 p.m. at the Jay Haus Arena


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Apparently, both my son and husband loved these as well. Let's just say that the "kitchen mice" got into them. They pouted when I gave what they hadn't eaten-- and they had barely left me enough to package as gifts. So, I made more. Just for them. Well, I like these too. A lot.
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With each New Year comes a new beginning, giving you the opportunity to try different projects that'll help you achieve that yard you've always wanted. This year, give your lawn a fresh start with this inspired backyard project idea.
Build a fire pit
1. Choose a location: Place your fire pit on level ground 20 yards or more from your home or other buildings and trees. Be sure it is positioned where wind patterns blow away, and not towards, all structures.
2. Ensure your safety: After you've decided on a spot for your fire pit, contact your local public utilities company to ensure there aren't any wires, cables or pipes beneath your location.
3. Select a size and shape: Map out the size and shape of your fire pit to fit your personal preferences and needs. Traditionally, fire pits are 3 feet in diameter and round, but you can select a larger area and a different shape like a square or rectangle.
4. Break ground: Use a front-tine tiller like Troy-Bilt's Colt' FT Garden Tiller to help loosen the soil to help create the fire pit, which is generally 6- to 8-inches deep. After you've tilled, remove all dirt from the hole, and shape corners and edges; then add a layer of sand several inches deep to the bottom of the pit.
5. Build a border: Add safety and aesthetic appeal to your fire pit by creating a border around it. Use rocks or flagstone for your border, but avoid using stones that have been submerged in water; they may explode when exposed to heat from the fire.
6. Water: Keep a bucket of water and a covered bucket of sand on hand in case of an emergency, and always make sure your fires are completely put out before going inside.
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Thanks you for posting that Doone, even if it was a little agitating to read.
Bygone to me means live and let live. I stand corrected on that word if I've missed used it. I have only a high school education.
So for you to feel responsible, everyone must see things as you do? That's not logical to me.
"Sometimes it simply isn't responsible to let bygones be bygones nor to live and let live."
I believe you did say such a thing. My retort stands.
Ah, perception plays a huge part in everything. Different perceptions in the same religions even can be catastrophic to it's upholding.
I still perceive your statement the same so we're in a stale mate. I did however catch something I previously missed. Ideas must always be checked and challenged. For that good sir we can agree.
I don't believe I've stated anywhere that I'm a Christian. The more I read here the more (to me) my point is made. It's not what a person or people believe but rather how different those beliefs are. I happened upon this site purely by accident and am just curious what the real point of it is. To support atheism or cut down those who don't. It's all fascinating to me.
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The early responses to the conversations have been encouraging and even inspiring. "Participating in the Living Room Conversation brought me back my boyhood when my family sat around the dinner table debating the topics of the day from both liberal and conservative perspectives. The Conversation captured what I find to be missing from modern media and modern political narratives: a sense that what we share as Americans is far deeper and more important than what divides us, a sense that we still have a chance to reach across partisan divides to identify both the core of our disagreements and the kernel of realistic compromises."
This year the media is asking us "How do families deal with their political differences over holiday dinners?"
My first response is: A family dinner party may not be the best place for a challenging conversation. Also, the simple guidelines for Living Room Conversations may not be sufficient for families. Many families have histories that are challenging. We all know family members that presume permission to break certain social restraints and social restraint is a core part of what Living Room Conversations rely on to ensure respectful engagement. Family members are the people you can "let your hair down" with, right?
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City of Hope researchers believe they've found a gene that links obesity, cancer and diabetes back to a single human gene. The study, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry found that RLIP76, a gene that removes toxic agents from cells, may play a significant role in weight gain and may also be related to cancer and diabetes.
The researchers tested mice that did not have the protein and found that they didn't gain any weight, despite a high-fat diet. The mice were also unable to get cancer, diabetes or high cholesterol. City of Hope plans to start clinical trials with patients before the year's end. Could the removal of this gene really stop people from gaining weight without dieting or exercising?
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WASHINGTON — An appeals court has thrown out the sexual assault conviction of a Marine in yet another example of the growing legal questions sparked by the U.S. military's newly aggressive stance on rape.
Nicholas Stewart, a Marine Corps captain, became one of the first to be convicted under a controversial 2006 law that allowed the military to seek charges of sexual assault if the victim was "substantially incapacitated" from drinking too much alcohol.
Stewart, 33, served more than a year out of a two-year prison sentence and was registered as a sex offender for a crime the appeals court now says he didn't commit.
"I am grateful for this long-awaited proof of the integrity of our judicial system," said Stewart, who was 29 at the time of his conviction. "I look forward to continuing to serve our country and our Marine Corps."
McClatchy detailed Stewart's case in a series of stories about questionable rape prosecutions by the military.
The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces said in its ruling Tuesday that the military judge had given the jury improper instructions that, in essence, required the jury to determine whether Stewart was guilty of the same crime twice.
The jury found him not guilty of one charge but then had to reconsider its own verdict when it deliberated over a second charge, which was essentially the same sexual assault allegation, the court concluded. The judge "created the framework for a potential double jeopardy violation," the judges wrote, referring to the constitutional clause of the Fifth Amendment that bars citizens from being tried for the same crime twice.
"As a result of the military judge's instructions, (the jurors) were placed in the untenable position of finding Stewart both guilty and not guilty of the same offense," the judges wrote.
The case also highlighted a little known but common problem with prosecuting many military rape allegations. In many cases, both the accuser and the accused are partying together and drinking excessively. As a result, memories often are blurry and little or no physical evidence of an assault exists.
Stewart, a fighter pilot who served in Iraq, was accused of sexually assaulting a longtime friend after she had been drinking at a party. She'd had sexual relations with the Marine previously, but not intercourse. The woman herself told Stewart she didn't feel "forced" to have sex. "I can't even say I told you 'No,'" she wrote in an email that came out in court.
But she maintained she had drunk so much alcohol that she couldn't have possibly consented to sex. She didn't remember the entire encounter but Stewart asserted she did consent.
Armed with the new law, the military decided to prosecute the case even though an attorney whose job was to evaluate the evidence had recommended that the military commander dismiss the charges because of lack of evidence.
Stewart's civilian lawyer, Charles Gittins, said this week's ruling raises broader concerns about whether the military is pursuing such prosecutions for the wrong reasons. Pressed by the woman's parents to take legal action, Stewart's commander sent the case to a court-martial to let a jury decide instead of telling them that there was not enough evidence to go forward.
"The commander had a legal expert telling him that he should not pursue it but he did anyway," Gittins said. "The only reason you do that is if there's political pressure."
The Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy declined on behalf of the prosecution to answer questions about the legitimacy of the original decision to charge Stewart. Jennifer Zeldis, a spokeswoman, said her office is still considering whether to appeal the decision.
But if the ruling becomes final, she said, Stewart cannot be prosecuted again.
A McClatchy analysis late last year found that the military is prosecuting a growing number of rape and sexual assault allegations, including highly contested cases that would be unlikely to go to trial in many civilian courts. However, many of the accused aren't being convicted of serious sex crimes, prompting concerns that the military is prosecuting cases that should not be sent to trial because of questions about the evidence.
The problem in Stewart's case also arose because of confusion over the 2006 law, which shifted the burden of proof to defendants who were claiming the sex was consensual. In an effort to address what could have been an unconstitutional burden on defendants, Congress revised the law once again late last year, but experts say those changes don't completely clear up the confusion.
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So I though "Hey I could do a choux shoe!" "Well that's just stupid... Why would I want to do a choux shoe? Just because how it sounds?" I was still thinking.... "But that's a perfectly good reason" You can see that I think a lot. Anyway I decided to give it a shot, so here they are, my choux shoes not so great for walking but sure great for eating!
- Choux paste (I've used the one Suzana had on her blog from Donna Hay's magazine, Issue 35)
- 1 cup (8 fl oz) water (240 ml)
- 100 grs (3 ½ oz) unsalted butter
- ¾ cup (112 ½ grs / 4 oz) plain all-purpose flour
- 5 eggs
Preheat the oven to 180ºC (360ºF). Place the water and butter in a saucepan over high heat and bring to the boil. Add the flour and beat with a wooden spoon until smooth. Cook, stirring over low heat until the mixture leaves the side of the pan. Remove from the heat. Place in an electric mixer and beat on high, gradually adding the eggs until well combined. Spoon the mixture into a piping bag with 12mm (½ in) plain nozzle and pipe shoes (oval shape blobs) onto baking trays lined with non-stick baking paper. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until puffed and golden. Cool on wired racks.
- Orange pastry cream on the microwave
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp corn starch
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
In a bowl put and mix everything together with a wisk (except the butter) and take 1 minute to the microwave. Mix again with the wisk, and take to the microwave for 30 seconds periods until it gets thick and creamy, allways mixing with the wisk. It will take in total 2-3 minutes. Add the butter and mix until melted. Cover with plastic wrap to avoid a skin on top and allow to cool before filling the shoes.
I filled the shoes with the cream cutting the top part and then dipped the bottom with melted milk chocolate. I've then made laces with the chocolate and arranged a few chopped pistachios on top of the cream.
Wanna walk in my shoes? Or maybe you prefer to eat them... I don't blame you!
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Sundance: Matthew McConaughey Ponders His Best Song Oscar Snub
"It's a travesty," he laughs.
You might not have expected to see Matthew McConaughey, version 1.0, in a place like the Sundance Film Festival (not many studio rom-coms play in Park City, and the temperatures are far too cold for shirt doffing), but McConaughey 2.0, who reinvented his career last year with daring performances in indie after indie? You bet. And so it was that McConaughey celebrated last night at the Grey Goose Lounge, where he was touting his upcoming film Mud and looking back on all those 2012 indies that nourished his actor bona fides while draining his pocketbook. "They don't pay near as well," he chuckled. "It's ironic, I had my best and most fun, creative year of making films ... and I lost money for the first time!"
McConaughey's looking healthier these days after gaining back 27 of the 47 pounds he lost for his most recent indie, Dallas Buyers Club, and he said that he'll start work next week on yet another unconventional project: the HBO crime drama True Detective, where he and Woody Harrelson will play cops for director Cary Fukunaga. "It wasn't about looking to do TV — it was just looking at the material and going, 'Wow," said McConaughey. "I can't wait to hear what comes out of [my character's] mouth on the page. I mean, this thing's got fangs."
It's then that we asked McConaughey about what we consider to be last week's cruelest Oscar snub — and no, it wasn't Ben Affleck missing the cut for Best Director. How on Earth, we wondered, could the Oscars have skipped over "Ladies of Tampa," the Best Original Song contender that McConaughey co-penned for Magic Mike? Didn't voters want him onstage at the Academy Awards, singing that tune in leather chaps? "Man, right? It's a travesty," McConaughey laughed. Is it time for all concerned citizens to rise up and demand a recount? "We gotta figure that out," he said. "Help me out here!"


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As we commemorate International Human Rights Day today, December 10, I can't help but recall the moment 17 years ago in Beijing when then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton proclaimed, "Women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights."
Today, for many of us, these 11 words may seem obvious, even instinctive. But in 1995, they were a revelation. I remember being among the delegates at the Fourth World Conference on Women, and feeling a current of excitement wash across the room. It was perhaps one of the first times the world had heard a person of global stature assert at a global forum in such unequivocal terms that women's rights and human rights were one and the same.
Today, in my official travels, I still meet women all over the world who tell me how those eleven words nearly two decades ago changed their lives. They helped raise the profile of -- and garner more international support for -- the work they were doing to protect women's fundamental human rights to live free of violence and discrimination -- whether it was working to end domestic violence or to prevent child marriage or to prosecute so-called "honor" crimes.
Seventeen years later, we have indeed seen progress in protecting the human rights of women. But many of the same challenges highlighted in Beijing 17 years ago still cast dark shadows in the lives of still too many women and girls. And there is no getting around the fact that progress is fragile in many places and barely measurable in others. I am optimistic, however, that the world is awakening to the fact that that empowering women to participate more fully in the political, economic and social lives of their countries is not just good for women, it is vital to national peace, prosperity and stability.
It is a message that Secretary Clinton and the U.S. Department of State has consistently sought to convey and act upon around the world. Following a trip to the Congo, where sexual violence has been used as a tactic of war, Secretary Clinton led the effort in the Security Council to appoint a Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. This summer, the White House launched the first U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally. To advance the global campaign against child marriage, the State Department will begin tracking every country's legal minimum age of marriage and the rate of marriage for underage girls and boys in our Human Rights Reports. Last week, Secretary Clinton announced a new initiative to provide emergency support to survivors of gender-based violence, those under credible threat of imminent attack due to their gender, and organizations that may need protection.
It is heartening to see that more women from places where their rights had long been suppressed are finding their voices -- and finding common cause in so many issues, especially the fight against gender-based violence. I recently traveled to Guatemala and met women government and civil society leaders who were working to launch 24-hour courts to address gender violence and to ensure the enforcement of Guatemala's new laws against femicide. In Pakistan, women from across political parties formed a women's caucus to advocate successfully for legislation that promotes women's rights, including the Anti-Women practices law, a law to curb the use of acid to disfigure women, and anti-sexual harassment legislation. In Afghanistan, 120 female judges now sit on Afghan courts, and ensure the enforcement of laws against gender based violence. Brave women such as Lal Bibi, who survived a rape by Afghan local police officers and fought to ensure that those men were punished and sentenced to prison, continue to fight for their rights and the rights of their sisters, mothers and daughters.
And in the Middle East, so many of the women of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen fought side by side with their male counterparts to overthrow dictators during last year's Arab Spring. We watch anxiously as the people of these nations write their new constitutions and build their new governments. There continue to be many shocking reports of sexual assaults targeted at women taking part in public protests. We call on all governments to ensure that sexual violence is always confronted with the full force of the law. None of the hard-fought democratic gains of the Arab Spring can be consolidated unless women participate fully in the political process.
Recently, I spoke with Tawakkul Karman, a leader in Yemen's struggle for democracy and one of three women the Nobel Peace Prize Committee honored in 2011 for their work to bring peace and freedom to their countries. Just 33 years old, she has absorbed the lessons of the past 17 years. Women are instrumental to a free country, she told me, and that is why her struggle and the struggle of so many women around the world is not just one for women's rights but for human rights. In other words, women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights, once and for all.


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Gödel, Escher, Brock, Part 2
Chatterbox continues to wrestle with the question of whether David Brock's lurid confessions might be true. As he explained yesterday, it all boils down to Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, which translates paradoxical statements like "Everything I say is a lie" into the language of mathematics. With a little manipulation, though, the Brock Paradox can be rendered soluble. Or can it?
We take for our text a purported solution to the Liar's Paradox (as it was known to the Greeks) by David Tribble, a software engineer in Plano, Texas. Tribble works off the following version of the Liar's Paradox:
Epimenides is a Cretan.
Epimenides states, "All Cretans are liars."
Chatterbox thinks a fair summary of David Brock's article, "I Killed Anita Hill (I'm Sorry)," in the August issue of Talk and, very likely, the forthcoming book (Blinded by the Right) from which it is excerpted, would be as follows:
Brock is a conservative.
Brock states, "All conservatives are liars."
Using this template, we can now put the Talk piece through Tribble's solution, which assumes that there is more than one Cretan, and that Epimenides is a liar. In Tribble's proof, Chatterbox has substituted "Brock" for "Epimenides" and "conservatives" for "Cretans." Thus:
P. 1 Brock is a conservative.
P. 2 Brock is either a liar or a truth-teller.
P. 3 His statement is either true or false.
And now we start dropping in Tribble's assumptions:
P. 4 There is more than one conservative.
P. 5 Brock is a liar.
P. 6 Thus Brock's statement is false.
P. 7 Thus "All conservatives are liars" is false.
P. 8 Thus not all conservatives are liars.
P. 9 Thus some (one or more but not all) conservatives are not liars.
P. 10 Thus at least one (but not all) of them is a liar.
P. 11 Thus Brock, a conservative, could be a liar.
Problem: Although Brock was still describing himself as a conservative when he began his confessional jag three years ago, the subtitle of his forthcoming book, inconveniently, is The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative (a play on the title of a famous book by Barry Goldwater). Thus we need to reformulate the paradox as follows:
David Brock was a conservative.
Brock states, "All conservatives are liars."
Unfortunately, this isn't much of a paradox. David Brock was a conservative, hence was a liar; now he may or may not be a liar, hence his contention that all conservatives are liars could be true. In this formulation, Brock seems more like Whittaker Chambers than like Epimenides.
But wait! Let's take another look at that Talk headline: "I Killed Anita Hill (Sorry, Anita)." Anita Hill is not dead. Therefore Brock couldn't have killed her. This shows Brock is still a liar, even though he says he is no longer a conservative. Which means Brock must be lying when he says he's no longer a conservative! Which means Tribble's proof is still plausible. ...


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The pinning ceremony is a time-honored nursing school tradition. Often more personally meaningful than the graduation ceremony, it signifies one's official initiation into the brotherhood and sisterhood of nurses. The ceremony is rich with symbolism. The history of this rite of passage can be traced all the way back to the Crusades of the 12th century. During this time, the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist tended to injured and infirm Crusaders. When new monks were initiated into the order, they vowed to serve these sick soldiers in a ceremony in which each monk was given a Maltese cross, the first badges given to those who nurse.
The modern ceremony dates back to the 1860s, when Florence Nightingale was awarded the Red Cross of St. George in recognition for her tireless service to the injured during the Crimean War. To share the honor, she in turn presented a medal of excellence to her brightest graduates. By 1916, the practice of pinning new graduates was standard throughout the United States. As the profession developed each school chose its unique pin. The Becker College nursing pin was designed by Carol E. Walsh, RN, MSN, a distinguished nursing faculty member from 1983 until her retirement in 2000.
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Coblentz Memorial Hall, dedicated on October 8, 1965, is named for Margaret Elizabeth Pontius Coblentz '01, and her son, Edward Pontius Coblentz, in recognition of their dedicated efforts on behalf of the College and of a generous donation made by the family to finance the construction of the building.
Margaret Elizabeth Pontius Coblentz was born on September 7, 1880 in Cochrantown, Butler County, Pa., the daughter of the Reverend John W. Pontius and Mary Apple Pontius, and a first cousin to Joseph Henry Apple, the first president of Hood. Mrs. Coblentz graduated from Hood with a degree in mathematics. A person of boundless energy with many interests, she was an active leader in her church and in various civic and patriotic organizations, including the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Woman's Club of Catonsville (General Federation of Women's Clubs), the Baltimore County Public Health Association, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Baltimore Music Club, and the American Association of University Women. She was a charter member of the Baltimore Hood Club.
On April 22, 1903, she was given in marriage by her cousin, Dr. Apple, to Oscar Bechtol Coblentz, the son of Edward F. and Lucinda Bechtol Coblentz, at the Reformed Church in Middletown, Md. Shortly after their marriage the couple moved to Frederick and for a number of years lived close to the campus in a home they built on Rockwell Terrace. Margaret Coblentz died in Baltimore on May 17, 1962, following a long illness.
Margaret's husband, Oscar, was a brother to Emory Coblentz, for whom Coblentz Hall was named. (See Hood College Magazine, Spring 1990). He too was a dedicated member of the Hood College Board of Trustees, serving from 1941 to 1948. Considered one of the pioneers in a modern public education in Maryland, he was a teacher, the superintendent of schools in Frederick County, a member of the Baltimore County Board of Education, and a member of the State Board of Education. A graduate of St. John's College and the University of Maryland School of Law, he practiced law, became an engineer, and was a national success in the contracting field.
The couple had five children: Oscar Bechtol Coblentz, Edward Pontius Coblentz, Katharine Reed Coblentz, John Phillip Coblentz, and Joseph Apple Coblentz. Edward, their second son, was born in Middletown, Md. on April 28, 1905. A graduate of the University of Maryland, he was a successful businessman, active in community affairs, and committed to higher education. Upon the death of his father in 1948, he was elected to succeed his father on the Hood College Board of Trustees, serving with distinction on the Buildings and Grounds Committee.
Edward P. Coblentz married Angela Anne Poisal and had one stepdaughter, Kathryn Glastetter.
He was president of McLean Contracting Company, a construction firm in Baltimore that had been founded by his father and that specialized in heavy engineering contracts. The company built its reputation for excellence during World War II by advising the U.S. Army of difficult construction projects. He was a member of Associated General Contractors of America, Inc. the Engineers Club of Baltimore, the Advertising Club of Baltimore, and the American Society of Military Engineers.
On February 20, 1963, at the age of 57, he died in Baltimore of a sudden heart attack. His sister, Katharine Coblentz Crook '29, succeeded him on the Hood College Board of Trustees.
The Coblentz family holds the unique honor of being the first family (although not the last) to graduate three generations of Hood College students. Margaret's daughter, Katharine, graduated in 1929, while her granddaughters, Margaret Crook Arnold and Katharine Crook Heidlebach, graduated from Hood in 1952 and 1956 respectively.
Hood College owes a great deal to the generosity, commitment and dedication of the Coblentz families, whose financial contributions made possible the building of a second residence hall bearing the name, Coblentz.


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- Calories per serving: 137
Cooked millet replaces bread crumbs in this recipe for added fiber and nutrition. To make it, toast 1/4 cup dried millet in a saucepan until kernels start to pop; carefully add 3/4 cup boiling water and simmer for 15 minutes until water is absorbed. Cover and let stand 5 minutes. Serve on gluten-free buns with honey mustard and lettuce.
- Preheat oven to 375º. Put millet, egg, oil, onion powder, allspice, sage, and salt in a medium bowl or the bowl of an upright mixer. Mix on medium speed for 1 minute (or mix by hand). Add ground turkey. Mix on low speed just until combined.
- Squeeze excess water from spinach; then crumble over other ingredients. Mix briefly just to combine. Shape into four patties, using wet hands (mixture will be very soft).
- Lightly spray a baking sheet with cooking oil. Arrange burgers on baking sheet. Bake for 25–30 minutes, or until cooked through, turning once. Serve on toasted rolls with mustard and lettuce.
PER SERVING: 137 cal, 1g fat (0g mono, 0g poly, 0g sat), 52mg chol, 25g protein, 7g carb, 1g fiber, 480mg sodium


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Carson Lee Barnett, son of Chris Barnett and Caitlin Black, celebrated his second birthday on September 27.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (May 23, 2008) — The annual research day in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has been named for longtime faculty member Dr. Yash P. Kataria.
The event will be held May 29 at the Health Sciences Building from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Presentations will be in Room 1150, and scientific posters will be in Room 1102. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Phil Bromberg, Bonner Professor of Medicine, scientific director of the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Kataria's mentor.
The night before, a dinner in Kataria's honor will be held at the Greenville Hilton beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Further plans are to raise $100,000 to endow the research day, and the Medical & Health Sciences Foundation of ECU is a third of the way toward that goal.
Kataria, a pulmonologist, has been on the ECU medical faculty since 1978, when he arrived as associate professor and section head of pulmonary and critical care medicine. He rose to professor in 1982. Since 1995, he has been director of the sarcoidosis clinic at ECU and has gained recognition as a worldwide leader in the causes and treatment of this mysterious respiratory disease, which is prevalent in the Southeast. Kataria, now professor emeritus, sees outpatients and is active in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
He began the internal medicine annual research day in 1987 during a stint as interim department chairman. Kataria has published more than 70 scholarly articles.
"My personal commitment has always been the tripartite goal of excellent patient care, education and training of future doctors who will carry the torch, and investigation into diseases that are relevant to our patients and population," Kataria wrote recently, recalling his years at ECU.
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Skip to comments.U.S. debt threatens to be overwhelming
Posted on 02/15/2010 11:48:41 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
It's bad enough that Greece's debt problems have rattled global financial markets. In the world's largest economic and military power, there's a far more serious debt dilemma.
For the U.S., the crushing weight of its debt threatens to overwhelm everything the federal government does, even in the short-term, best-case financial scenario -- a full recovery and a return to prerecession employment levels.
The government already has made so many promises to so many expanding "mandatory" programs. Just keeping these commitments, without major changes in taxing and spending, will lead to deficits that cannot be sustained.
Take Social Security, Medicare and other benefits. Add in interest payments on a national debt that now exceeds $12.3 trillion. It all will gobble up 80 percent of all federal revenues by 2020, government economists project.
That doesn't leave room for much else. What's left is the entire rest of the government, including military and homeland security spending, which has been protected and nurtured by the White House and Congress, regardless of the party in power.
The U.S. debt crisis also raises the question of how long the world's leading power can remain its largest borrower.
Moody's Investors Service recently warned that Washington's credit rating could be in jeopardy if the nation's finances didn't improve.
Despite election-year political pressure from voters for lawmakers to restrain spending, some recent votes suggests that Congress, left to its own devices, probably isn't up to the task of trimming deficits.
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Greece: 11 million. Apx. the size of Los Angeles. Assuming the EU is 400 million or so, it is 2% of the EU.
If 2% can take the whole structure down, then what happens when Germany or France hits the economic wall where the businesses can't support their spendthrift laws?
Germany and France are models of sobriety compared to Greece and probably compared to the US
What happens when interest rates rise?
When interest rates rise, everyone with a home equity loan, variable rate mortgage, and credit card debt is going to have even less to spend than they do today.
The triple whammy will hit, higher interest costs, higher taxes, and inflation - return of the misery index.
Since the government did little to pay down debt during the good economic times, and embarked on huge borrow and spend, it's economic disaster, if we don't get this turned around soon.
All out war against the bamkers.
At least he cut project constelation!!!! That'll save a ton!
Worse than sobering.
Because they can't pay it back, except by printing more dollars. And dollars issued by the FRB carry an automatic 6% per annum interest charge.
The only way to actually eliminate the debt is to pay it back with substance, not dollars. That means something real, like land or gold or cotton balls, something.
And we just ain't got it. So they will continue to print dollars and make the debt bigger and bigger until sovereign paper is worthless.
It was only in the last week or two they authorized increasing the debt from 12 to 14 trillion. Guess where we are now, the last figure I saw?
12.4 trillion
At this rate, we'll be near 20 trillion by the end of the year.
Then, it's over. Cause if the welfare folks and the social security folks and all the other folks stop getting their checks, well, you can imagine.
And the net result is...
Because the only thing government debt has been able to accomplish is to curb hyperinflation. Instead of printing a half gazillion physical dollars, you just print a bond with a pretty picture on it and make it look all official, and use it to suck back the dollars that live all over the world.
Hyperinflation. If government is unable to sell bills of credit (they were explicitly prohibited from doing it in the first place by that old Constitution BS), they will go to the last resort. Physically printing the dollars.
They have to. Or else the populace would tear DC down to the ground.
Oh, and BTW: If Moody's, or Standard and Poors, or any other of these shysters were doing their damn job, then they would be downgrading stuff way before the companies/countries go in the dump.
But they're not. They are playing the same games as everybody else, just like the property assessors, and the bond rating agencies, and the whole other bunch of whores.
Then, when Triple A stuff is getting flushed down the toilet, Moodys and the rest will say "Well, you know, there's risk in every investment... don't blame us!!" and they will walk with their Lexuses and bonuses and Cayman Island bank accounts.
I wanna buy a steam engine!
A steam engine geared to an alternator wired to an inverter.
Can you buy a steam engine with one of them stupid green energy star labels on it?
Since I see no tag for sarcasm, I can only assume you meant what you just said.
Constellation would have had us return to the moon, and still might before it's all over. Along with this program being cut, the administration will not only surrender moon exploration/exploitation to the Russians and the Chinese, we will also lose our ability to place any satellite in close Earth orbit ourselves. I'm wondering just what Russia or China might charge us to perform that service. Then of course there is India, surely they would charge lower than the going rate. Wouldn't they?
NASA's funding is being cut for want of about $4 billion dollars, roughly the same amount of funding that ACORN seems likely to receive.
Priorities my friend, priorities.
Then, when the shtf, one or two can come and live at my joint.
We'll eat alot of spaghetti and split pea soup, but we'll make it.
And if they can add an AR15 or two and a couple thousand rounds to my already significant collection, the more the better!
"The only way to actually eliminate the debt is to pay it back with substance, not dollars. That means something real, like land or gold or cotton balls, something."
Okay, let's say we back the dollar with 10% gold. Half the world loves gold. Would this cause a stampede to hold dollars? How would strong demand for gold-backed dollars affect our debt?
If the money is spent on schools to correct the output of illiterate individuals such as yourself, it might be a positive result of ceding space to everyone else.
I had hoped that both the responders to my post would notice the extra !!!'s as sarcasm.
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CARLISLE — A bed bug-sniffing dog found a limited number of areas at Bosler Memorial Library had some level of bed bug residue or activity during an inspection Tuesday.
The areas were spread throughout the library, according to a notice posted on the library website. The areas were specific and able to be isolated and removed for treatment, the library said. Items included chairs and books
There were no hits by the dog on puppets or stuffed items.
The Friends of Bosler Bookery had no hits at all.
The library recently had a few items returned with evidence of contact with bed bugs.
It is working with a local pest control company, and the staff is being trained to identify and treat instances of bed bugs if materials are returned to the library with the unwanted pests.
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Often called training centers or concentration camps, Offices exist to hone a minifigure's frustration and rage to a razor's edge. They are considered fundamental in urban areas not only because they maintain all the paperwork that keeps track of death tolls (something CityFolk are oddly fond of) but also because of their boring, oppressive environments. Minifigs aren't patient creatures by nature and being forced to sit around, not killing things, is an agony to them. You can always tell someone is about to be promoted when flipped tables or dead bodies go crashing out of fifth story plate glass windows.
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- The large number of workers could be used as allies, neutral parties, or cleverly sprung traps.
- Source of OfficeSupplies, handy when you need to MacGyver something mid-battle.
Tactical Considerations:
- Office buildings are a tactical joy: multiple floors, height and line of sight advantages, loaded with basic materials, etcetera.
- Offices are a powderkeg ready to blow. Consider using the disgruntled employees against your opponent, perhaps by baiting and tailing them.
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Women about to have breast cancer surgery may want to pay extra attention to the radiation treatment they could be offered afterward.
A new study shows a new and increasingly popular treatment called brachytherapy is tied to more wound and skin complications than the standard radiation technique.
Yet as many as one in six women on Medicare, the government's health insurance program for people over 65, end up getting the new therapy following breast-conserving surgery, researchers found.
"We were very surprised to see that brachytherapy is as commonly used as it is, particularly given that there is no clear evidence that it offers better cancer outcomes," said Dr. Cary P. Gross of Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. His findings were published Monday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Not all patients will benefit from radiation treatment, but in many cases doctors recommend it to reduce the chance that the cancer will return.
Typically the whole breast is irradiated from the outside over several weeks, but in brachytherapy the radiation is delivered from inside the breast.
With the MammoSite device, for instance, a small balloon is inflated in the cavity that remains after the tumor is removed. It delivers high-dose radiation in less than a week and has been used on more than 50,000 women so far, according to its Massachusetts-based manufacturer Hologic.
But there is no solid research showing brachytherapy is a safe and effective alternative to whole-breast radiation, Gross and his colleagues say.
In fact, previous research has found a higher rate of breast removal and acute complications among women who get the new treatment instead of the traditional one.
The new study is based on nearly 30,000 Medicare beneficiaries who underwent breast-conserving surgery in 2008 or 2009.
It found 16 percent had brachytherapy, although rates varied widely across the country - from none to more than 70 percent in some areas.
"This strongly suggests there are providers in those regions who are playing a major role in steering women toward brachytherapy, and we find that to be very concerning," Gross told Reuters Health.
He said whole-breast radiation costs about $6,000, whereas Medicare shells out roughly $12,000 for brachytherapy.
After accounting for factors such as patients' income, overall health and whether they had chemotherapy, the researchers found 35 percent of women who got brachytherapy had a complication over the following year - usually an infection or other problem related to the wound or skin.
By contrast, only 18 percent of women getting whole-breast radiation experienced a complication. That means that for every 100 women who undergo radiation therapy after breast cancer surgery, there are 17 extra complications after brachytherapy compared with the standard treatment.
Hologic declined to comment on the new findings.
Unproven technology
The new findings add to a report from 2010 showing that from 2001 to 2006, the use of brachytherapy after breast surgery rose steadily from less than one percent of cases to 10 percent.
"There is often a great deal of excitement for new treatments, but just because something is new doesn't mean it's better," said Gross. "Women should ask their providers to discuss with them, 'What do we really know about the risk and benefits of different treatment options?'"
An editorial published with the report echoes Gross's concerns, although it adds that the study was observational and so is less robust than an experiment comparing the two treatments head-to-head.
In the editorial, entitled "When Hope Hinders Science and Patient-Centered Care", Dr. Jennifer Malin of the University of California, Los Angeles, notes that the regulatory requirements for new medical devices do not include proving that they improve patient outcomes - a requirement when companies apply for drug approvals.
"After a capital investment has been made to acquire the device (…) uptake of the new technology occurs even in the absence of evidence of improved or even comparable outcomes," she writes.
About one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in her life, according to the American Cancer Society, but only a minority die from the disease.
After breast-conserving surgery, up to 40 percent of women see the cancer return, but that number can be reduced to about 10 percent with external-beam radiation of the whole breast. Common side effects are swelling and redness.
According to Gross, the benefits of radiation outweigh the harms for younger women, but some older women may safely skip the treatment.
"The first question (to ask your doctor) is, 'Do I need radiation at all?'" Gross said. "The second question is, 'What are the risks and benefits of the different radiation treatments?'"


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