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Is California Poppy Time!
Did you know that the State Flower of California is the Poppy?
It's a very finicky flower that requires just the right amount of rain and sun to blossom. And, its difficult to photograph:
So finding the right conditions with clouds in the sky and a not-too harsh light and light winds blowing can be problematic. Then, too, the California drought in the last few years really hit the poppy fields hard. Last years bloom was the worst I've seen in many years.
So, during the rains this winter, I wondered if it would be a good year for the poppies. The answer is in ... YES!
Luckily, over the years, I've found a reliable spot that's off the beaten track. It requires all-wheel drive or better to get into and thankfully, the large crowds at the State's Poppy Reserves this year haven't found this area.
This first shot was taken behind a ridge line that provides shelter from the wind:
The next two shots were taken from the exact same spot. The difference between them is the focus point and the aperture of the lens in each instance:
See how the background is blurred in this image ... hopefully focusing your eyes on the flowers in the foreground:
I turned around and saw this dramatic lighting of the hills ... no poppies but I liked the composition ... Click!
Here's another cluster of flowers a little closer to the base of the highest hill in the area:
The track I was on turned to the Northwest and I crossed over the sheltering ridge line to this spectacular view. FYI, those vertical towers you see on the right side of the image against the mountains are windmills!
I got down low and took this photograph of the cluster of poppies you see in the lower left corner of the image above:
A little further down the track we came across this ridge filled with poppies:
So 2017 is a good year for the poppies. If you are in Southern California, go visit them ... but not on the weekends!
Thanks for looking,
P.S. Did you remember to click on any of the images to see an enlarged version of it? They look much better that way!
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3 million bees confiscated from New York man's houseBy Angel Cuala on Aug 24, 2012 in Animals, United States •
New York City Beekeepers members recently confiscated around 3 million bees from a house in New York, after learning that they were not registered and are becoming a health hazard within the neighborhood. Below is a photo of some of them.
Bees, swarming on one of the hives that were
seized from Yi Gin Chen's house in New York City
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According to the New York Daily News on Thursday, August 23, 2012, approximately 3 million bees have been seized from the house of Chinese immigrant Yi Gin Chen in Corona, Queens, in New York City, which he claimed he started with one hive two years ago and the insects multiplied so rapidly.
As noted in the report, a handful of hives was found in part of the driveway of the two-family home and a lot more were seen in the backyard, which authorities said that there were around 45 hives all in all. One neighbor said he already called the attention of city officials once but no action was made.
"It's gotten out of hand. I don't have the time or resources to do this. I used to be a beekeeper in mainland China. That's all I want to do." Chen, 58, told the paper; insisting that he did not know about the regulations and that raising them was only his hobby; although authorities think that it could be his business.
"All rules of good urban beekeeping and of common sense have been ignored here. I thought I've seen it all in urban beekeeping and this surprised me." Andrew Cote, president of the New York City Beekeepers Association, was quoted as saying, adding that the bees are not in good health when they found them.
Nevertheless, beekeeping in New York City is legal since March 2010 and beekeepers do not need to acquire licenses, but their hives should be registered and owners of unregistered hives will pay of fines of up to $2,000 each.
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This Independence Day edition of Smackdown is live from Phoenix, Arizona, USA in the Talking Stick Resort Arena. The next Smackdown exclusive PPV is WWE Battleground on July 23rd which is twenty days away, so that means only two more Smackdowns until then.
Smackdown opened with a patriotic video. For a company so great at video packages, their movie batting average is very low with only a few home runs.
The ring announcer introduced the returning John Cena,who had a new T-shirt. Cena talked about Independence Day, the American ideal of all men being created equal,and he doesn't appreciate other superstars saying he's a "part-timing mascot" . Cena said he's an "all-timer",and broke down how his free agency meant he would be on both Tuesday Night Smackdown and Monday Night Raw. He named the biggest names off both brands but I noticed he didn't mention the Demon King Finn Fookin' Balor.
The also returning Rusev interrupted saying he works hard too, there were no commercials for his return, and that both the USA and the American Dream are jokes.
Cena yelled into the mic "THIS IS THE USA, AND NOT BULGE AREA".(get it bulge area) Rusev said America's 4th of July is all about stuffing your faces with hamburgers and hot dogs. The fans chanted "Yes! Yes! Yes!" at Rusev. John Cena challenged Rusev to a flag match on tonight's show.Rusev said he accepted the match, but not for tonight. Cena led the crowd in chanting "U-S-A" as Rusev left the stage.
Rusev reminds me of a mix of Borat and that short fat guy in the movie like they somehow did a fusion and got mad jail style brolic. You know the type like a fat muscle.
Backstage, Daniel Bryan talked to AJ Styles and Chad Gable. Since Kevin Owens objected to having two men he's defeated already in the battle royal tonight. Therefore, Styles will fight Gable for the right to be in the battle royal.
The first match of the night was The Phenomenal AJ Styles vs Chad "Willin' and" Gable in a match with the winner gaining entry into the Independence Day Battle Royal. This match was great. These two gentlemen have great chemistry this match was short with Gable showing his stuff. AJ went for a Styles Clash, but Gable escaped and grabbed an ankle lock. Styles eventually reversed it into a calf crusher. Gable escapes, but both men are limping slightly then a Pele kick by Styles leading to a Phenomenal forearm to end it. After the match, Styles helped Gable up to show respect. This match was only eight minutes but it could have and should have gone on much longer.
I'm giving this match a grade of A-. I was a big fan of the match over the last two week Chad Gable has impressed more than people who are on TV more than him like that fool Mojo Rawley.
Speaking of that guy backstage,Rawley was upset with last week's loss when Zack Ryder told Mojo they're both in tonight's battle royal. This segment was stupid but by default the Hype Bros are a top four tag team on Smackdown.
Carmella and James Ellsworth make their entrance, complete with the Money In The Bank Briefcase. Ellsworth introduces Carmella to start the "Carmellabration". Carmella taunted the fans for not believing in her, and that she gets to decide when she faces Naomi for the title.
Naomi comes out and the Smackdown Women's Championship is glowing because it has a huge amount of LED lights . She congratulated Carmella on her win, said she'd be ready, and called out "L's worthless", telling James somebody wanted a word with him.
Daniel Bryan CAME OUT TO THE LOUDEST POPS OF THE NIGHT. THE YES CHANTS WERE MASSIVE. Ellsworth tried to talk. Bryan cut him off. Daniel is barring James from the arena, fining him $10,000, and suspending him for thirty days without pay. If Ellsworth disobeys Bryan, Carmella has to give up the Money In The Bank briefcase. No Ellsworth until August 8th.
The second match of the night was a Smackdown Women's Championship match with the champion Naomi defending against Lana. This match was literally nine seconds. Naomi put Lana in a submission hold and it was it. That's also the record in the UFC for the quickest submission.
I give this match an incomplete grade it just was what it was. Naomi looked dominant. A lot of people want to shit on her but look at where she came from.The third season of NXT being a fucking Funkadactyl to Team B.A.D to winning at Wrestlemania 33 in her hometown of Orlando and holding it ever since making her the longest reigning Smackdown Women's Champion. At age 29 she's arguably the greatest Black champion in WWE history ever.
Tamina hit the ring after the match and told Lana to get up. Lana sold her injured arm and reluctantly followed Tamina up the ramp. It was very tense and random.
Backstage, Dasha tried to interview Shinsuke Nakamura, but Baron Corbin blindsided Nakamura with the briefcase. Corbin asked Nakamura if he really thought Corbin was scared of him. Nakamura said "Yes!" Officials separated the two wrestlers.
Daniel Bryan announced the John Cena vs. Rusev flag match will take place July 23rd at "Battleground".
The Usos came out with about seven to twelve people in black hoodies then the New Day came out dressed in a very American way with people dressed like American things the Statue of Liberty, Lincoln, a bald eagle, a sailor, a shirtless George Washington, Elvis and some more wacky things. Wale was the master of ceremonies.
Wale asked both teams to keep it clean. Big E went first for the challengers, closing out by saying even Rikishi knows that New Day rocks. Jey Uso compared Xavier Woods to Whoopi Goldberg and made fun of Big E's man boobs. The Usos said Xavier Woods was a rated-R superstar, who got an "Oh, no, he didn't!" reaction from the crowd. Kofi Kingston is up next. He has abs, the Usos have muffintops, which is why they wrestle in T-shirts. They're in their first trimester. They're "weenie-doos". Jimmy Uso says Kofi Kingston was Jamaican, now he's from Sheboygan He's Paul Bunyan yelling Timber, and New Day can't beat them without a fourth member. Xavier Woods gets to go last. The New Day dressed like a million bucks, the Usos dressed like divorced dads. The New Day are gladiators like Romans, the Usos should go back to carrying bags for Roman. The Usos took offense and started swinging. Wale disqualified the Usos, and awarded the battle rap to the New Day. Somewhere in there they dropped a reference to the Paige Sextape scandal. This was way better than I expected i really thought someone would say something leading to someone getting fired
Titus O'Neil plugged tonight's "205 Live", where Titus Worldwide is taking over.
The third match of the night was Randy Orton vs Aiden English.
Aiden English sang. He fills up my senses, like a night in the forest. Last week, English got RKO'd by Orton. This week, it's Orton vs. English. After Orton's entrance, English hit Orton with the microphone. English threw Orton into the steps and the match is underway. English has had the advantage throughout the break. The fight went to the floor and Orton tossed English over the announce desk. Then Orton did it again. Hanging DDT off the announce table. Referee Charles Robinson has somehow not counted these guys out. Orton picked up the steel ring steps and hit English with them. Aiden won via DQ.
This was a stall tactic so I can't really grade it, but damn this guy English is a jobber.
Orton brought English back into the ring and gave Aiden an RKO. Out comes the WWE Champion Jinder Mahal, the Singhs, and Jinder Mahal's entrance. The crowd chanted "U-S-A!" Mahal said he would like to beat tolerance into everyone in the audience. Orton interrupted Jinder, promising to punish Mahal's ass in the Punjabi Prison. Nobody likes Jinder because he's a jackass.
Jinder the god he should be wrestling with a turban.
Tye Dillinger is backstage with Tyler Breeze, who is disguised as blonde interviewer "Tenay Young". Tye figures out the disguise. Breeze asks Dillinger if he's worried about Breezango. Dillinger says he is, but wonders aloud what will happen if it comes down to Breeze and Fandango. Fandango is behind them, disguised as a construction worker. After Tye leaves, the Breezangos compare notes. They don't think Dillinger caught on.
Cut to Renee Young, who is trying to keep a straight face as she interviewed Mr. and Mrs. Kannelis. Maria said they have the power of love. Mike gushed about how beautiful Maria is. Off to the side, Sami Zayn is stretching, and accidentally knocked over a clangy pipe. Zayn started to apologize to Mike and Maria, but heard his entrance music playing and left. Mike and Maria weren't happy with Sami for "ruining the moment". This was so funny to me Sami Zayn is hilarious. Future world champion that man. Also that Mike Kannelis seems boring, is a major simp, and also looked tiny compared to Sami Zayn who isn't the largest man on the roster.
The main event of the evening was The Independence Day Battle Royal. Kevin Owens joined the commentary team. There was like 20 people in the ring but after the break half were gone. Harper eliminated Conor. Mojo eliminated Harper. Mojo and Ryder faced off. Mojo and Zack teamed up to eliminate Rowan, and then Mojo tossed out Zack. Owens acted outraged and calling out Mojo for not being a friend. Zayn eliminated Rawley. Styles, Zayn & Dillinger were the last three. The crowd was actually really behind Tye screaming ten! He was able to hit the new Tyebreaker on both AJ and Sami. When he tried to eliminate both at the same time he ended up getting eliminated. Sami and AJ exchanged blows and they both ended up on the apron, Styles then hit a Pele kick knocking Zayn out and off.
After the match KO attacked Styles but Styles gained the upper hand and was about to hit the Styles Clash but KO rolled out the ring. KO actually left the the United States Championship in the ring AJ picked it up.
I rate the match a B+ but it would have been better to have more heavy hitters in it like Baron Corbin, Shinsuke Nakamura, and maybe even the Mike Kannelis guy could show what he could do. But I also would have liked a tie with both Zayn and Styles going to face KO at Battleground.
Overall, this show was good near great. SmackDown's midcard is underrated Chad Gable and Tye should be boosted up and keep away from the jobbers like Mojo. Jason Jordan needs to be seen way more he's got IT. Once again WWE Battleground is about two SmackDowns away and the card is shaping up a very nice.


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(Storyline from The Melbourne Exhibition) Anyone could enter exhibits in the fields of art, science and industry at Melbourne's international exhibitions. And there were prizes to be won.
Annie Flatow was one of hundreds of ordinary Australians who took part. At the 1888 Centennial Exhibition she won a bronze medal for her display of 'Shells, turtle shells, etc.'
A dressmaker-turned-naturalist, Annie Flatow belonged to the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, where she presented specimens alongside those of renowned botanist Ferdinand von Mueller. She lived in Prahran with her husband Joseph, a 'shell importer and curiosity dealer'.
In 19th century Australia, collecting and illustrating natural history specimens was one of few professions considered suitable for a genteel woman.
Mrs Flatow also won a Colonial and Indian Exhibition prize medal in 1886 (NU 32368).
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Shutdown is over… for now. Enough Republicans caved to the pressure to give up. There was NO real compromise. It was to the Left, since to "compromise" is to give in to all demands. As one of the few defenders of the weak-kneed R's, let me just say that those of us out here in the hinterlands have NO IDEA of what they were put through.
IFO knows. As a board member who was put through the wringer during a union strike back in the 1980s, know that late-night hectoring phone calls, Christmas cards written by union members with the touching admonition to "Settle!" and, of course the usual picketing, rallies and weeping union members were a normal part of union strategy.
Several hundred local union members vs. seven board members. Good times.
So, what did we learn from this past G-vt shutdown?
1. National parks do not belong to the people. They belong to the political party in power. NPS employees should be ashamed of themselves.
2. "National" property of any kind does not belong to the people, either. Mining, forestry, logging, fishing (used to be just ocean fishing, now on any body of water), ranching – all activitivies that take place on "public lands" do so at the mercy of the bureaucracy overseeing them.
IFO used to amuse her children when they drove behind any "public" vehicle – police car or any other bureaucrat's car, by saying, "Hey. There's one of our cars! I'm a member of the public, so it belongs to me. It's much newer than our 20-year old VW bus. Let's take it and drive it to the grocery store to buy our food!"
This was a not-so-subtle lesson in Libertarian rhetoric.
3. Investment lesson: never buy or sell any of your assets on media hype about disaster – whether G-vt shutdown or looming doom, like AGW, earthquake, or even here in Oregon: tsunami – really!
All these scenarios have an apocolyptic tone, end of the world, etc. The more rational traders of stock ignore the noise and pay attention to the fundamentals. We should all do the same.


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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
For the sauce base: Combine all ingredients in a large bowl. Toss to combine and set aside.
For the vegetables: In a large saucepan over medium-low heat, combine carrot, celery, zucchini, peppers, olive oil, pine nuts and the sauce base, and let simmer for 45 minutes.
Meanwhile, bake the eggplant until softened, about 20 minutes. Let cool slightly, then remove peel and mash flesh. Add to vegetables. Simmer until eggplant combines with vegetable sauce, about 5 to 10 minutes. Set aside.
For the pizza: stretch the dough out into a large pizza pan or baking sheet. Spread with the vegetable sauce. Top with mozzarella chunks, chicken, tuna and grated cheese. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes, then increase oven temperature to 450 degrees F and bake until bottom crust is brown and crispy, about 8 minutes.
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With nearly 356,000 students, Miami-Dade County Schools is the fourth-largest school district in the nation. The school system must be prepared for managing such a large student and parent population.
To bridge the gap between school years for anxious parents and students, MDCS created an annual "Back to School Tool Kit," a catalog designed to answer questions about the upcoming school year. It addresses everything from school holidays to bus transportation, to uniform policies. Originally distributed in the form of media releases to the press, the catalog today is regularly updated online and offers even more information, including registration, vaccination requirements, school hours, and school safety.
The 2015-16 "Back to School Tool Kit" has recently been released for the upcoming school year, which will commence Aug. 24. (Cue sigh of relief from parents and groan from children.) It is offered in three languages — English, Spanish, and Creole —— and is available online on the School County's website, www.dadeschools.net.
John Schuster, the school system's administrative director of the Office of Public Relations, explains that the kit has proven useful over the years.
"It touches on a little bit of everything from academics, to transportation, to food. … It gives the public extra information on topics they need to know further about," Schuster says. "We've gotten a lot of feedback from parents who can easily access it, so we know it's working quite well. It's been a big advantage to be online."
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India Shares Down on Japan Quake
MUMBAI—Indian shares fell for a second consecutive session Friday after a powerful earthquake jolted Japan's northern coast and triggered a tsunami, sparking selloffs in markets across Asia and Europe.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensitive Index fell 153.89 points, or 0.8%, to 18174.09, its lowest close this month. The index lost 1.7% for the week, its seventh weekly loss in the last 10 weeks.
On the National Stock Exchange, the 50-stock S&P CNX Nifty fell 48.95 points, or 0.9%, to 5445.45.
Volume on the BSE rose to 39.92 billion rupees ($885 million) from Thursday's 29.84 billion rupees. Decliners bested advancers, 1,928 to 924, while 118 stocks were unchanged.
Elsewhere in Asia, Japan's Nikkei Stock Average fell 1.7%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed 1.6% while China's Shanghai Composite fell 0.8%. In Europe, France's CAC was down 1%, while Germany's DAX was down 1.1%.
The 8.9-magnitude quake was strongest earthquake to hit Japan in at least 300 years. Police say 200 to 300 bodies have been found in the city of Sendai, the closest major city to the quake's epicenter, wire reports said. Another 110 were confirmed killed, with 350 people missing, the Associated Press reported. Police also said at least 544 people were injured, according to the AP.
Tsunami warnings were issued for 53 countries around the world, including Mexico, New Zealand, Indonesia, Taiwan and the West Coast of the U.S.
India's government said in a statement there was no tsunami threat to the country.
"Considering how badly the U.S. markets did overnight [the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.6% to below 12000] and the losses in the world markets today following the quake in Japan, our market has been quite resilient. This is a positive sign," said Jagdish Malkani, country head at TAIB Capital.
He said he expects an uptrend in Indian markets provided that crude- oil prices continue to soften. By late morning in New York, light, sweet crude for April delivery was off $2.92, or 2.8%, at $99.78 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Of the 30 Sensex constituents, 25 ended lower Friday.
Technology led the fall as investors rushed to take profits after the recent advance and amid fears the earthquake would hurt demand for software exports. Tata Consultancy Services fell 2.9% to 1,076.25 rupees; Infosys Technologies shed 1.1% to 3,054.45 rupees.
Metals extended earlier losses, as investors turned uncertain about how the natural disaster would impact demand and metal prices. Sterlite Industries SLT 1.37% fell 3.1% to 160.15 rupees, while Tata Steel sank 2.5% to 582.00 rupees. JSW Steel, which isn't part of the Sensex and in which Japan's JFE Steel Corp. owns a 14.8% stake, fell 3.9% to 901.85 rupees.
Among other Sensex decliners, Bharat Heavy Electricals fell 3.6% to 1,974.70 rupees, while Reliance Communications shed 3.5% to 96.30 rupees.
Oil & Natural Gas extended its advance to a second straight session on media reports Thursday that the state-run company's planned share sale may be deferred to the quarter ending in September.
"This is a positive for ONGC since it shows the government wants to get a good valuation and not just push the share sale through even though it needs the funds," said Jagdish Meghnani, vice president of institutional research at Alchemy Share & Stock Brokers. ONGC was also supported by the fall in crude prices and rose 2.1% to 281.30 rupees.


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I really haven't had a good last couple of months. I've just spent most of the Australia Day weekend dealing with a major ear infection. J took some really gross photos of the yellow stuff coming out but I won't inflict them upon any readers who stumble upon this blog. The good news is that the antibiotics seems to be finally winning. The pain subsided in time for me to enjoy a traditional Australia Day BBQ - complete with gourmet lamb and rosemary sausages - with our friends. The bad news is that I am still completely deaf in my right ear. I'm assuming this will be only a temporary inconvenience.
In knitting news, I did a test knit and felt with the New Zealand mohair yarn. I was a bit worried as it was only about 80% animal product but it seems to have worked. My test swatch (knitted on 7.5mm needles) shrunk about 18% (after about 3 cycles in the washing machine), which was less than I expected, but at least I have a fair idea of what to expect. Now to decide upon a pattern.
I've knitted just over a metre of the Melbourne goth scarf; it's been a very easy knit and if anything the yarn has softened with use. It's not merino-soft but it's certainly fine for a scarf. I've been advised that true Melbourne goth colours would be blood-red and black, but last time I looked there were plenty of black and purple-clad white-faced black-haired youngsters hanging around Flinders Street Station. Maybe I should rename it the Melbourne 'emo' scarf. Whatever*
Speaking of merino, somehow 11 balls of 'petrol' (dark greeny blue) coloured Cleckheaton Merino Spun jumped into my backpack at the recent Cleggs (no website) sale. It was a great bargain ($3.95/100 gram ball, marked down from $7.95) and I love the colour but I'm already wondering about the wisdom of the purchase. It's a very bulky wool (recommended needles are 6mm), so while it will be a quick knit, I don't think it will make a very flattering jumper for someone of my size. Also, while it is 80% Merino wool, I'm not so sure about the 20% acrylic. I guess I'll knit a sample swatch and try out a few stitches before deciding what to do with it next.
Belated resolution for 2008. Catalogue my stash on Ravelry. Hopefully this will help reign in my yarn-buying tendencies. And I might even be able to flog off some of the unwanted stuff to other knitters.
*Gen-Y speak for 'Bite Me'
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
2 comments:
- Melinda said...
Hope your ear and hearing improves! Take it easy...enjoy the knitting!
- Taphophile said...
Oh you poor bugger - you aren't having a very good trot.
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"Corey O'Brien is the type of talent that inspires every person he interacts with. His dancing is so strong and he gives his all in every single performance he delivers. I have watched Corey overcome many different obstacles and always end up on top, successfully achieving every goal he has. From tours, theatre, international shows and reality TV, Corey has created amazing opportunities for himself and his career which has been nothing but incredible. I can honestly say Corey is one of the most talented people and dancers I have ever met. He is one of a kind and his future is bright." -- Elaine Wiles, Casting Director
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What are your expectations for the season?
"The playoffs are always our first expectation. We've been there the past six years in a row. We'd like to get there again, but we'd like to do it by winning the district, which we haven't done yet. So, we're going to shoot for the district championship."
Tell us about some players you expect big things from this year.
"We really don't have a lot of major Division I schools camped out at Williston, but we've got a bunch of great high school football players. It's kind of exciting because we have a senior heavy team. It's the most seniors (19) I've seen at Williston since I've been there. That's well over half of our roster. Our whole starting defense may be all seniors. Hopefully that will have an affect on our season. It's something that we've never really had at Williston. It would be hard to sit here and list all of them because we've got a good handful of very good high school football players."
In what areas do you expect your team to improve most from last year?
"I think defensively we're going to improve a lot. Out of our whole starting defense we may only have one guy that's not a senior. Offensively, the kids know what we're doing even though they didn't do it last year. The bulk of the kids either did it (triple option) on the JV or did it with me as a varsity player (two years ago). It seems to be something that the kids really buy in to and enjoy. So, I'm looking forward to us improving on both sides."
Following the 2008 season, you resigned as Red Devils coach to pursue cattle ranching, which your family and your wife's family have done for years. What made you want to take over the program again, and what's it like to come back to the game of football?
"It's exciting and it was actually an answer to a prayer because I was looking for some part-time work to go along with the business we had started. When Derek (Chipoletti) stepped away, the principal asked me to take it back over. It was awesome. It was really an answer to prayers as far as the job end of it goes. We've still got our business. We were blessed to have a young guy that is into agriculture that was able to help us with that - which takes a bulk of that burden off of my back."
How has the transition gone with you taking over the program again?
"It was kind of like riding a bicycle. All of the kids understood my expectations and how I did things. Derek did a good job and thought of some things that I never thought of doing that we'll still implement. It was a smooth transition."
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Eugeen Van Mieghem
Eugeen Van Mieghem (October 1, 1875-1930) was a Belgian artist born in the port of Antwerp.
As a boy Van Mieghem was confronted with the harsh reality of life at the waterfront. Even at primary school he showed a talent for drawing. He was introduced to the work of Van Gogh, Seurat, Meunier, de Toulouse-Lautrec and others at an exhibition organised by Flemish painter and architect Henry van de Veldeat the Antwerp Academy around 1892. An idealism began to grow in him that he would never renounce. He became the artist of the typical harbour folk: sack porters, sack makers, emigrants, dockers, bargees and tramps.
Van Mieghem had his first taste of real success at 'La Libre Esthétique' salon in Brussels, where his pastels and drawings hung alongside works by French impressionists such as Monet, Cézanne, Pissarro, Renoir and Vuillard.
Van Mieghem married Augustine Pautre in 1902. At the end of November 1904 his young wife fell ill. Van Mieghem depicted her in an impressive series of drawings and pastels that rate alongside similar work by such artists as Rembrandt (the serie of Saskia) and Ferdinand Hodler (Valentine Godé). Grief-stricken at the death of his wife, it was 1910 before Van Mieghem showed his work again.
After his first individual exhibition at the Royal Society of Art of Antwerp in 1912 international interest in his work mounted and group exhibitions followed in Cologne and The Hague. In March 1919 he showed his wartime work in Antwerp. This remarkable series of mainly drawings and pastels met with the wide approval of art critics, who compared this work to that of Thčophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Jean-Louis Forain, and Käthe Kollwitz. After an article by his friend and Flemish author Willem Elsschot appeared, Van Mieghem was also able to show his wartime work in a gallery in Scheveningen (The Netherlands). In 1929 he became a teacher of life drawing at the Academy in Antwerp and he participated in exhibitions every year until his death in 1930.
In European social art of the turn of the century, international art critics compare his work to that of figures like Käthe Kollwitz, de Toulouse-Lautrec and Steinlen. Van Mieghem had no equal when it came down to drawing and painting the lives of ordinary people, living and working in an international seaport. When it comes to capturing social reality, his work has much of the power and authenticity of Jean-François Millet's. Like the precursor of social art, Van Mieghem never had to leave his own environment in search of subjects. The world was on his doorstep.
In recent years Van Mieghem's work has been rediscovered internationally. In 2000 a Steinlen retrospective at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona included seven of his works and brought international recognition for his work. In 1993 a Van Mieghem Museum opened its doors in Antwerp (Beatrijslaan 8, B 2050 Antwerpen, tel. 32.3.211.03.30 and firstname.lastname@example.com) with a collection of 150 of his works. website: http://www.vanmieghemmuseum.com The exhibition 'Off to the New World - Emigrants by Eugeen Van Mieghem' at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam runs from October 24 th 2003 until February 2nd 2004 website: http://www.jhm.nl


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How To Brine A Turkey – An Herbed Brine Recipe – Kid Friendly Things To Do .com
I found this recipe for an Herbed Brine in the November issue of Taste of Home. Last weekend I gave it a try, and took some step by step pictures on the how to!
You'll Need:
- 4 Quarts of water
- 2 cups of sugar
- 1&1/2 cups of salt
- 1/2 cup of fresh parsley
- 1/2 cup of fresh rosemary
- Bay leaves – a small handful
- 4 tsp. dry mustard
- 4 tsp. garlic powder
- 4 tsp. ground (cayenne) red pepper
- 4 tsp. whole peppercorn
- 4 Quarts of cold water
- Turkey oven roasting bag
- Turkey
- Aluminum Disposable Roasting Pan
Brining is basically giving the turkey a salt water bath for a long period of time. There is a science behind the idea. Basically the salt water locks the moisture in so the meat won't dehydrate during cooking. It should remain nice and juicy!
Now, on to the how to 🙂
- In a large stock pot…add the first nine ingredients
- Bring to a boil, and stir to dissolve the salt & sugar
- Add 4 more quarts of cold water to the brine – this will cool it off for you!
- Transfer your brine to whatever you'll use to pour the brine with
- I used a nice big bowl with a spout to transfer the brine into the roasting bag. A pitcher would have worked well, also
- Place your turkey inside the roasting bag, and place it in the disposable roasting pan.
- *I found the pan to be very helpful in catching splashed water, and a great container for rinsing the turkey!
- Seal the bag, and pop the turkey – still in the disposable container – into the refrigerator
- You will want to let the turkey marinate in the brine for several hours, or overnight!
- Occasionally flip the bird over so everything is exposed to the brine
- When you are ready to cook the turkey empty the bag of juices, and thoroughly rinse the turkey – inside, and out! I know, it seams odd to rinse off all of the spices, and seasonings, but you'll want to really give it a thorough rinsing. Trust me…you don't want a bird that's too salty!
- Pat it dry, and place it in your roasting pan…breast side up
- Rub olive oil all over the turkey – top, and bottom
- You can shake a little ground pepper over the turkey for some added flavor
- Roast it according to this turkey cooking chart
- Here's the beautiful outcome! A juicy, and beautiful turkey!
- He loves posing with food! Those curls, cute face, and charming personality are the only things that keep him out of constant time out! Fourth+Youngest+Boy = Trouble!!!!
- Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
- Find the original recipe and so much more at Taste of Home!
~ Melissa – KidFriendlyThingsToDo.com
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In the aftermath of the Omega victory over the V'Sori, the world had been thrown into chaos. Mindstorm, Kale and Talos were working feverishly to utilize Dr. Destruction's resources to better the world, while Socks, Bully and Steve the Atlantean spearheaded the hunt for the remaining V'Sori around the world.
Cyber-Burglaire decrypted Destruction's information for Mindstorm, granting him unfettered access to the structure of Omega. Meanwhile, an Atlantean Blood Cult following Leviathan began making a lot more noise.
One evening, while working, Mindstorm stumbled across the file on Talos…and it suddenly clicked: Talos had been in the hands of King Meros, who was posing as Dr. Destruction…and Meros knew nothing about robots…meaning that, all this time, Talos was moving around on this team without the proper programming. He read closer and learned that Talos reactivated himself and Meros went ahead and deployed him to the field, hoping for the best. All this time, Talos was running around, not bound by his programming. As Mindstorm tried to reach out to Kale, Kale told him that the Atlantean Blood Cult was making a move, threatening to blow up an Earth Unity rally! Mindstorm swore under his breath and contacted Steve to pick up him, Kale and Talos, and take the six of them to the rally.
As they closed in on the rally, Mindstorm scanned the crowd to find the rogue Atlanteans and detected a couple in the audience, so he whipped up a VICIOUS storm to try to disperse them. He regretted that moments later when a lightning bolt ripped from his own storm and blasted the ship, injuring Bully. Steve the Atlantean struggled to put the ship down safely, but managed to do so without killing the team, even though the ship was toast. As the team piled out of the ship, a sneering Atlantean stared down at them from a rooftop, sword in hand. As the rally scattered, the Atlanteans among the crowd drew their weapons as well and prepared to fight.
Mindstorm asked Kale if he knew anyone here, to which Kale replied that he knew Samor, the priest that seems to have commanded Mindstorm's own storm against him. Mindstorm asked him what he knew about Samor, and Kale replied "That he was never this strong. But selling your soul to Leviathan will do that." Steve sighed as he looked at the Atlantean cultists advancing on them, and said "So now I take up arms against my own people," before readying his blaster pistol. "Alright, then." Kale noted that Samor might be their best hope of finding out how to find and stop Leviathan. Talos did a quick count of the Buster Squad and asked "Isn't six usually a bad omen for you guys?"
Mindstorm instructed Kale to neutralize Samor, the Atlantean Sorcerer teleported to the building Samor was on, grabbing the Priest and attempting to strip him of his abilities…but Samor laughed, swatted his hand away saying "Leviathan loves me best," and slashed him with his sword.
Talos lunged into the onrushing Atlanteans and asked them if they were ready to die for their God, before crushing one of them and muttering that he really doesn't understand religion. And then the Atlanteans gangpiled him and did a surprising amount of damage to him. Mindstorm sent an Electrical burst that fried several Atlanteans, while Bully and Socks rushed into combat…but did surprisingly little damage. Steve, on the other hand, was a crack shot picking off cultists left and right.
Mindstorm attempted to Telekinetically bind Samor and failed, but Kale used Samor's own trick and stole Mindstorm's summoned storm to blast the Priest with lightning. The cultists were giving Talos, Bully and Socks all they wanted and more, but Steve was still inflicting damage when he commented to Socks that his heart just hadn't seemed "in it" since the war with the V'Sori ended…which was promptly followed by Socks shredding Atlanteans. Mindstorm finally bound Samor with his TK, and Kale magically paralyzed him.
With the Atlanteans fallen, Kale picked into Samor's mind for the location of the bomb, which was beneath the city! Socks burrowed down to find it…while Talos followed! Socks and Talos found the bomb and Socks asked Talos if he could disarm it. Talos said "No," and grabbed it tight, then leapt out high into the air. He yelled at Mindstorm to make a Telekinetic platform and landed on it, then leapt higher…taking the bomb high into the sky, where it exploded in the atmosphere.
The team began questioning Samor for information on where Leviathan was being summoned, but Samor laughed at their threats…until Bully and Socks made a VERY persuasive case of intimidation (the "Spill the Beans" Adventure Card), as Mindstorm flew into the air looking for Talos.
Samor laughed that Leviathan was HERE and Socks, Bully and Steve were struck in their tracks (Shaken)…as Kale disappeared and LEVIATHAN loomed over them! The massive God took the form of a Sea Dragon and sneered at the meager opposition in front of him, swatting Steve with his tail and lashing out at Bully and Socks…but Socks, the little science freak that should not be, blocked his attack!
Socks screamed out to Mindstorm that they needed help NOW and he struck Leviathan, drawing blood on the Atlantean God! Steve lined up what seemed to be the perfect shot to take Leviathan out, but his blast had no effect, and Bully was hammered to the brink of unconsciousness. Socks kept attacking relentlessly as Mindstorm returned to the field of battle…just in time for Leviathan to revert back to Kale!
Kale BEGGED the team to kill him, because he had forced Leviathan back down inside of him…but that he was healing quickly. He told "Mike" (Mindstorm's real name) that this was their only chance, and that he was sorry for everything. Mindstorm took his hand and said "I won't leave you. Bring Leviathan back." Kale said he was sorry once more, and Leviathan returned…holding Mindstorm's hand.
Mindstorm raised his other hand to the sky and lightning surged down into his body, traveling into the Atlantean God. The eruption of power blew Socks, Bully and Steve away from the field of battle. It blew out every window in
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As Socks struggled to recover, his nose and ears led him to the smoking pit that was Leviathan and Mindstorm. When his eyes finally adjusted, he saw the very still body of Mindstorm floating in the air. Then he heard the soft speech in Atlantean and saw Kale standing at his feet, surrounded in mystical energy. The Atlantean speech grew into a crescendo until he finally spoke English: "By the Power of Atlantis, I command you to live! Live, damn you."
And Mindstorm's breath broke the silence.
Socks, Bully and Steve walked to the edge of the pit as Kale brought the very damaged, but living, Mindstorm out. As the Buster Squad returned to Dr. Destruction's base, a back-up of Talos came online. Talos and Kale got back to the business of repurposing Omega while Mindstorm healed and Socks, Steve and Bully traveled the region, putting warlords, V'Sori, rogue Atlanteans and former Omega operatives gone rogue. Talos came to Mindstorm one night and confronted him about Mindstorm knowing Talos hadn't been reprogrammed. Talos explained that all this time, he's not been bound to reprogramming by Dr. Destruction, but that he had made a choice…and Mindstorm would have to trust him like he trusts the rest of the team. Mindstorm said that's why he fought so hard for Talos…Talos said that's why he blew himself up to save
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As the months drifted on, Mindstorm went back to work. A few more heroes came out of the woodwork, and many of the Omega operatives had come to believe in the cause, truly. Kale made the team nervous at first, because he was now absolutely overflowing with power…but he was no longer drawing it from Leviathan. Mindstorm felt Leviathan die…but that power had to go somewhere, and it seemed as though it stayed in Leviathan's chosen vessel. The team had to separate, because the world is a lot of ground to cover, and the Buster Squad no longer operated in tandem anymore…until, a year after the fall of Dr. Destruction, their V-MAPs flared to life for the first time in a very long time. It was an automated message from Dr. Destruction, explaining to them that the Earth will never TRULY be safe until the V'Sori Overmind is defeated…and that the Atlantean Teleport Tubes can be calibrated to take the team straight to the Overmind. He explained that they had the ability and resources to resolve this once and for all, but that he was no longer in a position to give orders or command…but that it was up to them to decide: Stay on Earth…or take the fight to the heart of the V'Sori fleet and end this for good.
And so the team prepared for that one final push to ensure that Earth is free from the V'Sori threat forever.
COMMENTS: I lied. This was NOT the final adventure. Next week really will be.
I promoted Steve the Atlantean to Wild Card, and Socks' player does all the rolling for him and Bully, while Mindstorm's player handles Kale and Talos.
I wanted the fight with Leviathan to be BIGGER, but we were in kind of a time crunch…but I had the "Kale turns into Leviathan" thing in mind going into it, with three outcomes: a) Leviathan wins, everyone dies…b) Leviathan turns back into Kale, they kill Kale, Leviathan and Kale die…or c) they refuse to kill Kale, Leviathan comes back completely healed, and if they defeat him AGAIN, they get Kale back, with Leviathan's power but without being bound to him anymore. Of course, I should never underestimate Mindstorm's player's absolute refusal to leave anyone behind (especially since he truly began crossing that barrier from villain to hero), and he intentionally held onto Kale's hand in hopes of him turning back so he could fry Leviathan. He rolled insanely well on damage, and I made it worse by applying the damage to him as well, giving him 7 wounds to soak (which he failed to do). In the aftermath, with Kale back, he got to make Kale's spellcasting and Healing rolls, and he was literally rolling for his own life…barely rolling well enough to save himself.
Bully and Talos were largely non-factors in this mission, but Steve made for nice ranged support…and Socks got to cap off his career with the ultimate melee performance…he stood toe to toe with an Atlantean God and not only drew first blood, but inflicted three wounds by himself (he took Giant Killer in anticipation of this fight, and utilized No Mercy to make a bad damage roll come out MUCH better).
Ultimately, one more big moment in a campaign that has been full of them…and next week we say goodbye, as Mindstorm's player is leaving at the beginning of April and the last weekend of March, we are playing in a larger group than usual for International Tabletop Day.
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Ginger Baker's mid-'70s profile took another unexpected turn following Cream's blues-rock blood and thunder and his Afro-beat matchups with Fela Kuti.
He formed this straight-ahead power trio with the guitar- and bass-playing brother team of Adrian and Paul Gurvitz, who'd briefly lit up the '60s U.K. charts as Gun (of "Race With the Devil" fame).
Such a step might have seemed subversively normal for Baker, but he and the brothers had an undeniable chemistry; not surprisingly, their debut album is a self-assured, aggressive affair.
"Help Me" and "I Wanna Live Again" are punchy and succinct; so are the hard-driving instrumentals "Love Is" and its funkier cousin, "Phil 4." The band leavens their hard-hitting delivery with subtle orchestration and piano; the latter instrument works to haunting effect on the introspective "Memory Lane." There's some engaging humor, too; "Mad Jack"'s lyrics about a reckless outback race are silly, but kitschy fun.
The only real clinker is "Since Beginning," which is bogged down from self-consciously "meaningful" lyrics and meandering delivery; its eight minutes could have benefited from judicious pruning.
Naturally, no Ginger Baker album could pass without some drum solos, but they're tastefully done. He's very much a team player here, in contrast to infamous stick-bashing marathons like "Toad." That said, this album's a strong, decisive statement, and if hard rock's what you crave, you won't be disappointed (by Ralph Heibutzki).
01.Help Me
02.Love Is
03.Memory Lane
04.Inside of Me
05.I Wanna Live Again
06.Mad Jack
07.4 Phil
08.Since Beginning
Baker Gurvitz Army:
*Ginger Baker: drums
*Adrian Gurvitz: guitar, vocals
*Paul Gurvitz: bass guitar, backing vocals
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Sunday, 1 November 2009
The Baker Gurvitz Army (1974 -Vertigo)
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Friendships flourish within minutes at CoCo View Resort, and we've heard some say there must be something in the water. We'll leave you to decide that for yourself, but there most certainly is something in Roatan's water – the world's second largest barrier reef and an incredible array of sea life exploding with color!
Dive with Roatan's sea turtles, dolphins, tropical fish, eels, sharks, and more as you explore the island's best dive sites with CoCo View. Descend massive thousand-foot coral walls, investigate old wrecks, swim through deep channels and caverns, or visit an eel garden. With well over 150 dive sites around the island, plus CoCo View's own "Front Yard," there's certainly no diving shortage here, and you can visit a new site on each trip out.
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Situated on Roatan's south shore, Coco View Resort is perched on the edge of the world's second largest coral reef. They have spectacular and convenient diving. Take a short ride on one of their custom dive boats to Roatan's best dive sites, or explore the pristine coral walls and 140' wreck in their famous "Front Yard" – only a few fin kicks from your room! You'll be cool & comfortable in one of the spacious air-conditioned Oceanfront Rooms, or exotic Over-the-Water Bungalows and Cabanas. Relax in the hammock on your private deck at the edge of Roatan's incredible underwater realm. Soak in the tropical sun and cooling sea breeze as you rest and unwind.
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MINI Preparation for Grizedale Stages Rally
We have just had a MINI in at Mini Sport for a suspension setup and final checks before going to compete in the Grizedale Stages Rally, of which will start on the 30th November. The event that is run from Coniston, up in The Lakes has a loyal following and will be a competitive event.
Mark Nuttall, the owner, hasn't driven competitively since 2003 when he used the first ever MINI to be built for Rally competition use. You may remember the TV program on Motors TV that followed the project right here at Mini Sport. Since then he has set about building another one with our help and this is the result!
It is an exciting if not nervous time, getting back into not only a Rally Car but a brand new MINI that you have built yourself and has no competitive experience yet. Grizedale Stages is a small yet competitive enough event to test his and the MINIs abilities and should be a good weekend of pushing the boundaries and testing the limits!
Whilst at Mini Sport we have also decalled the MINI with the Mini Sport branding. We used yellow decals to contrast with the Electric Blue, we think it looks great!
We have a great racing heritage at Mini Sport and love Rallying. If you need any advice on competition setups or have any enquiries we will be happy to help.
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Manually processing accounts payables can take a lot of time and allow fraudulent or error-filled invoices to go through. AP automation software reduces the processing time and ensures that only valid invoices are processed. Here are the benefits of this software:
Centralized processing: An organization can have multiple AP professionals working on the task. AP software gives them a centralized platform to work on so that they can all coordinate their efforts.
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Rosewood Homestyle Assisted Living offers assisted living. The facility is a great fit for individuals who need assistance with daily tasks but who also wish to maintain some of their independence. This residence has many services and amenities to offer their clients. For example, they have a selection of room amenities such as safety and disabled fixtures, regular maid service, central air conditioning, an emergency call system, and on-call maintenance. In addition, they offer several meal choices including low sodium options. Finally, they offer a few different fun activities like education programs, television and movie nights, health and wellness programs, daily exercise routines, and general communal activities.
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Relief from the heat building across Germany will come early next week, due to heavy thunderstorms in the region.
Early next week, a cold front is set to slice into the heat and humidity that will send temperatures soaring to 28-31 C (82-88 F) across most of Germany on Sunday. AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperatures will approach or crack 32 C (90 F) in many southern areas.
The steamy air will be trimmed in a northwest-to-southeast fashion with relief coming first to Cologne and Bremen on Monday. Highs from 22-24 C (71-76 F) will be common in northwestern Germany to start the new week.
Southern and eastern Germany will have to wait until after a stormy Monday for temperatures and humidity levels to fall on Tuesday.
Some of the thunderstorms will become heavy and strong, especially across Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria on Monday afternoon and evening. Flooding downpours, damaging winds and small hail will be produced by a localized number of the thunderstorms.
Residents of Stuttgart, Munich and Nuremberg are urged to monitor AccuWeather MinuteCast® and seek shelter when the thunderstorms threaten.
The threat for the strongest thunderstorms will be on a more isolated nature in Würzburg, Leipzig, Berlin and Dresden.
Even in the absence of flash flooding, any downpours will create hazards for motorists by reducing visibility and heightening the risk of vehicles hydroplaning when traveling at highway speeds.
Monday night into Tuesday, the heavy thunderstorms will likely evolve into a band of drenching showers and thunderstorms across southern Germany. More interruptions to outdoor plans and travel delays are possible.
While the danger of damaging winds and hail should wane, AccuWeather meteorologists will be monitoring the potential for a continued risk of flash flooding.
The soaking will also contribute to temperatures on Tuesday being held 7-14 degrees Celsius (12-25 degrees Fahrenheit) below Monday's highs in Stuttgart and Munich.
Cool air will stream across all of Germany at midweek as scattered showers and less-intense thunderstorms rumble.


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The short answer: I don't know.
Yesterday was not good, at least from our perspective. We are heartbroken and profoundly disappointed.
Last night a group of us met here at our home, at one point all of the adults crammed together on our back porch, talking, sharing, comforting, confessing.
It could've easily become an angry kind of meeting, and while there were at times honest and heartfelt expressions of strong emotion, it felt more like a gathering of family after the death of a loved one. Some grief, some hope, all intertwined with an air of loss and resignation.
Not to mention a mean game or two of "Corn Hole" and the emergence of a clear "Corn Hole" master.
It was community and a coming alongside of sisters and brothers. It did my heart much, much good to know neither our struggle nor our sorrow are solitary.
We prayed together, asking, begging, pleading for direction and perseverance. For us, as well as for our pastor. We prayed for God's glory to be magnified. We asked for forgiveness as well as to be forgiving. We believed the Lord's promises to show Himself faithful.
So, what now? Only the Lord knows. We wait. We seek. We trust.


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My brother-in-law, Patrick, came to visit this past month and we were talking about the things I write. It seemed to him that I wanted to reveal a little more of myself with each letter; that I didn't just want to have my readers know my thinking, I wanted them to know me. This seemed right. I didn't realize it until he said it, but I think I want you to know me because I want to offer my opinions to you as a friend rather than as a financial advisor. I, for one, don't take opinions very seriously from someone I don't know. With this view, accept the following editorial.
In my junior year at St. Olaf, I somehow got into "English 87."
English 87 seemed like a pretty high number for someone who didn't know what a predicate was. << don't end sentences with "was" I was nervous before the first class. Learning to write is about being critiqued. Unfortunately, I take to criticism like Laura Bush takes to thong bikini mud wrestling.
Dr. Ted Billy was the professor. I had never heard of him, but he was supposed to be good. Dr. Billy shocked me. I had never been taught by a person who was as short as Dr. Billy.<< passive voice Dr. Billy was probably less than 4'-6" tall.
Rather than trying to ignore the obvious, Dr. Billy embraced it. He would dress in children's clothes, hop up and sit on his desk and then lecture us brilliantly on American poetry. His attitude was "I'm short, let's get a good chuckle out of it and then see if I have something meaningful to teach you." He did. I wanted to stay in the class and try to pass. I'm trying to take Dr. Billy's attitude. Here's who I am. Let's have a good chuckle about it and then see if I have something meaningful to offer.
At St. Olaf, I had fun, but I also usually felt on edge. In fact, I was balancing on a dual-edged sword. On one edge, I knew that I was only there because of scholarships, loans and the student work program. I loved St. Olaf, but the realist in me continually worried that I wouldn't maintain good enough grades to keep the mysterious money coming in that would allow me to stay there.
The other edge of the sword was the evolving romantic in me. This was just starting. As long-suffering readers and friends know, I am a bit of a nerd. I love numbers. Consequently, my high-school love life would not make titillating reading. I did manage to catch one girl off guard. She was so unprepared when I asked her to the Homecoming Dance that she accidentally said "Yes." Later, at her door, after the dance, as we were saying goodnight, I choked.<<needs revising, too, many, commas. I blamed it on the cold. My mind screamed:
There we stood on her front steps on a cold Minnesota night. As I said, I choked. I quickly blurted, in an overly loud, fast and nervous voice:
Then, I ran home. I wanted to be a romantic, but I didn't know how. I called my friends. None of them had choked. I was the only one who choked. (For my female readers out there, this is sometimes what it is like to be a fifteen-year old boy. We get over it, but it's a confusing time. During this period, we might be hard to deal with, <<dangling We're so uncomfortable in our own skin that it feels like our flesh has been tailored for us by the Vietnamese guy on M*A*S*H who made Hawkeye [or was it Trapper?] a pinstripe suit with horizontal stripes).
Just to make things perfectly clear, this was NOT one of the years I was nominated for Homecoming King. Both Homecoming King and the Nobel Prize for Economics are nominations that have, so far, eluded me. I'm not asking to win, but it would be a nice gesture to be nominated. Toss me a bone. I'm doing this for free!
So when I got to St, Olaf, the realist in me was going full blast and the romantic in me was just trying to get a word in edgewise. Then I met Dr. Ted Billy.
The other day, I found something I wrote for Dr. Billy. Dr. Billy introduced me to a poem that seemed to bring the conflict of the realist and the romantic into perspective. I wrote a paper about it, but to understand the paper, you need to read the poem first. If you're not interested in poetry, skip this part and move on to the editorial about "The Romantic and The Realist". I just think it's an interesting poem, as well as an apt lead-in to this month's editorial:
Late Romantic by A.R. Ammons
Change the glacier's loneliness and the ice melts,
streams going off into sundry identity systems.
bog floats, lakes, clouds, seas, drinking water:
flux heightens us into knots of staid tension:
we live and go about containing various swirls:
too much swirling improves loneliness poorly:
we take advantage of separateness to unite sensible
differences, the tube in the fineness of its coupling
nearly a merging: well, nothing's perfect: fall
away, of course – we have other things to do alone,
go to the bathroom, brush our teeth, reel:
how can we give ourselves away if we're not separate
enough to be received: and, given away, we know
no desire but the other's desire, and given each
to each, we are both both, indistinguishably, sort of.
As I said, back then I wrote about this poem. I interpreted it as a description of a romantic trying to adjust to a world that demanded realism ((The paper I wrote was from February 1978. I've included it here for those readers who have way too much time on their hands. In the interest of "keeping it real," I have not corrected Dr. Billy's edits about my "weak phrasing," "needs restructuring," "passive voice," or "dangling" somethings. I wanted you to see what it looked like when I re-read it after 30 years. Be gentle with your critique. Up until this point, my main poetry training involved a limerick about a well-endowed gentleman from an eastern seaboard island.)). Despite my paper's shortcomings, I passed the class and, somehow, the ubiquitous scholarship money kept flowing. In retrospect, I'm very glad I pursued English "as a second language." Yet, I still struggle every day as a romantic trying to cope in a realist's world. I've come to realize that this will not pass.
I'm the guy in the suit with the horizontal pinstripes. I have decided to embrace this.
A Plumb Perspective Editorial
For readers who think I have finally gone off the deep-end, allow me a few paragraphs. I'm only wading into the deep-end. I anticipate that the process will continue to be gradual. Experts say it could take years.
In my younger days, I believed I was a smart guy. I had good grades, honors, certifications, valuation training. I thought I could beat the market. Surely, I could beat the guy on the other side of my trade.
I couldn't. It was a romantic vision that I had.
Most readers might think of "romantic" in terms of mushy love. To me, the term means more than that. If you look it up, you will see definitions like:
- Relating to or characterized by a fascination or enthusiasm for something, especially of an uncritical or indefinable kind.
- Relating to or characterized by adventure, excitement, the potential for heroic achievement.
- Characterized by or arising from idealized or impractical attitudes and expectations.
The romantic in me wanted to believe that I was smart enough to beat the other guy on the opposite side off the trade, even though he was being paid millions of dollars and devoting all of his mental energy to beating me. I was delusional (for more on my delusional nature, see my January 2008 issue regarding my ineptitude with the naughty junior high school girl).
The rational response to this reality realization<<trite use of alliteration was to give up. Buy some index funds and be happy with what you get. But, if there's one thing I'm not, it's a quitter. Ask anyone who has witnessed my struggles with my bad habits. Still, I have always had confidence in my brain's operational capabilities. In college, I believed that, even though I was chemistry major, if I worked hard enough, I could analyze a poem. When I was a 30-year old chemical engineer, I believed that if I worked hard enough, my brain would grasp finance. When I was a 47-year old finance geek, I still believed that if I worked hard enough, I could do better than the standard index portfolio. This, however, was still a "romantic" vision. I had to be "realistic" and figure out why I could beat this portfolio before I could figure out how I could beat this portfolio. In investing you need to differentiate yourself from the competition (those on the other side of the trade) to succeed. My intelligence did not differentiate me from them. But, something did.
Different Goals and Constraints
There is a lot of money to be made in the financial world and, as a result, it attracts a lot of smart people.
In my life, I've worked many jobs. In my early years, I shoveled skating rinks, drove a delivery truck, worked on an assembly line, did night janitor work. I was a dishwasher, bartender, busboy, bellman, waiter, dock porter, groundskeeper, and painter. As a chemical engineer, I did shift work running miniature test refineries. Later, I got to stay up all night monitoring chemical tests at wastewater treatment plants ((My manager said, "You're not really initiated until you've gotten s#&t in your teeth." After 12 hours of this, Mary Kay would make me undress in the garage. In deference to our neighbors, MK would turn out the porch light for my naked dash to our house from our detached garage.)). Believe me when I tell you that, compared to my previous jobs, finance is a pretty good gig if you can get it.
Around 2000, I started to think that I could do better than just investing in a standard portfolio, which I thought had our portfolio over-allocated to an overvalued stock market. This is where the romantic in me slammed smack dab into the wall ((Now needs tuck-pointing.)) of realism. Once I picked myself up off of the ground (vowing, for the umpteenth time, that I should wear a helmet anytime I am even going near the wall of realism), I recognized the obvious flaw in my plan. I was competing against central banks, mutual fund managers, financial planners, endowments, pension fund managers, and hedge funds, They were all being paid big money to devote all their efforts to the task at which I was trying to beat them. They had brains, training, staffs, access to the best information and billions on the line if they got it wrong. The romantic Chip wanted to succeed in this world, but the realistic Chip realized he needed an "edge." That edge was different goals and constraints from the person on the other side of the trade.
All of these market participants (price-setters, if you will) have specific goals and constraints. For many of them, one goal is to keep their jobs. Some don't want to be criticized. Some may be making trades to promote economic policies. Some may be worried about defending their actions to clients if they go wrong in the short-term. Some may want to avoid defending unusual trades in front of investment committees (or even Congress), if the trade doesn't work out. Their compensation structure might encourage excessive risk-taking (like the "heads I win, tails I don't lose" compensation structure of hedge funds).
Almost all mutual funds managers are restricted by their prospectuses regarding the assets in which they can invest. For example, if a stock fund manager thinks stocks are overvalued, he can't just switch to gold; he must just try to find the least overvalued stocks. His universe is limited. Index fund managers are mandated to buy what's in their index in the exact proportion to their index (their goal is to do so as cost-effectively as possible).
Legally, for investment advisors, there is something called "The Prudent Man Rule." You must invest for your client in a manner similar to a "Prudent Man" or you can be sued. People have called me many things, but I don't think 'prudent" has ever been one of them. If an investment advisor put a client into a Plumb Performance Portfolio©-type of portfolio and it went down, that investment advisor could be sued and lose ((I'll bet that if you went to your financial planner and handed her the Plumb Performance Portfolio©, and said, "This is exactly what I want to do," she would refuse to do it. At the very least, she would make you sign a release form. That's just the way the laws and the industry are. This may be one of the reasons my lawyer doesn't like me writing this financial letter. Please don't sue me.)).
In business school, I was taught something called The Efficient Market Hypothesis. When one ponders The Efficient Market Hypothesis one's mind is immediately drawn to the concept of sleep and how good a nap would feel right about now. WAKE UP!!!
Without going into the details, the basic idea is that you can't beat the market. But, one critical assumption underlying the hypothesis is that everyone who is investing in the market is trying to beat the market over the same time frame as you. In reality, this is just one of the goals of the price-setters. It may not even be their most important goal. It may not be a goal at all. And, even if it is, other constraints might prevent them from achieving it. The price-setters buy and sell to maximize their own goals given their own constraints.
This realization allowed me to set aside the romantic fantasy that I was smarter than all these other highly paid, highly qualified and highly motivated price-setters in the financial markets. I could focus on the realistic realization that I just had different goals and constraints.
My Goals and Constraints
Change the glacier's loneliness and the ice melts,
streams going off into sundry identity systems.
bog floats, lakes, clouds, seas, drinking water:
Change the portfolio's goals and the constraints melt,
savings going off into sundry asset classes.
precious metals, commodities, TIPS, international, value:
My goals are different from most of the price-setters in the financial markets. I don't have a job to lose. I don't need to buy or sell to influence financial policy or my country's economy. I don't have to go before an investment committee (unless you count the monthly financial report I write for Mary Kay). I don't charge for my letter, so I'm not even too concerned about losing subscribers.
My goals are to make our portfolio grow over the long-term. My only constraint is to make sure Mary Kay understands what I am doing and agrees with it. It doesn't matter to me if it tracks with what "The Prudent Man" would do or if my investments change the direction of the economy. The only thing I am trying to accomplish with this letter is to explain what I am doing and the rationale behind it. If you laugh along the way, that's a bonus. If your goals and constraints are similar to mine, then some of the ideas about which I write could be things you might want to consider.
What I realized is that, with goals and constraints different from most of the people on the other side of my trade, I could get something that I wanted (at the price I wanted it) and they could sell it to me (at the price that they desired). We could both be happy with the trade, even though neither of us was smarter than the other. In negotiations classes, they would call this transaction "Pareto Efficient." It's a "win-win" situation.
When you are in a win-win situation, my advice is to take one of the wins. The alternatives are to walk away (giving up your win) or to try to win even more (risking your "bird in the hand").
We Are In A Win-Win Situation Today
It might not feel like that. Not to put too fine a point on it, this is the scariest financial situation I've faced in 25 years of following the markets. We're entering new territory and most of my analyses (based on historical patterns) are useless. I usually have good ideas. I don't now. Things are different, and now I have to insert some judgment into my models. I must make decisions regarding time periods and data reliability. My sense is that we are entering an investing period that is not captured by the historical data. Since we have not been here before, my models, which rely on historical data, lose some of their relevance. I think I will be able to do this effectively, but we are, as I said, entering new territory.
Still, we are entering with a head start. You might feel bad about your portfolio's performance or the economy. I'm pretty sure that the price-setters I described above feel worse. So how do we take advantage of this today to preserve our capital for our retirements and our families?
What I'm doing is what I've always done. I'm not a market-timer. What I do is try to identify long-term trends. You should validly ask, will one guy sitting alone at his computer trying to analyze long-term trends be able to identify them faster than all of those smart people?
Of course not!
That's a romantic vision.
The realistic vision is that those smart guys have different goals and constraints than we do. Let's use that to our advantage.
With long-term goals and minimal constraints, over the last three-and-a-half years, I've tried to:
- Identify trends that I thought would be important going forward.
- Provide the rationale behind why I thought these trends were important.
- Help you understand how I thought they would impact the returns on various asset classes.
- Provide some humor along the way so that you would keep reading the important stuff.
Hopefully, I sufficiently stressed that I didn't know the timing of these events. The fact that all of them are coming to pass simultaneously is bad. I didn't realize quite how interconnected things had become.
So, What Are These Long-Term Trends?
My prognostications over the last three-and-a-half years, with this letter, have been about:
- The potential for a declining dollar.
- The potential for the bubble in the housing market to deflate and impact the economy.
- A government response that would involve printing money thereby reigniting inflation.
- A surge in commodity prices due to this money printing piled on top of a neglected supply infrastructure that would be unable to keep up with this demand caused by the growing prosperity of emerging economies.
- A rise in the prices of precious metals as an alternative currency.
Based on my anticipation of these trends, I tried to allocate our portfolio accordingly. Now that these events are coming to pass, the portfolio is holding up well. This is not because I am so smart. It's because many other smart people didn't have the same goal as I did. Or, if they did, they were constrained from acting on their beliefs. My goal was to protect (and, with luck, grow) the long-term value of our portfolios. Still, our transactions were Pareto Efficient because we had different goals and constraints:
- Foreign central banks got to keep exports flowing by buying our treasuries to keep long interest rates low.
- Our central bank has been able to add rapidly to the money supply, which helps debtors, but they've simultaneously been able to keep the reported CPI low.
- Active fund managers, endowments and pension funds have all been able to stay relatively close to their declining benchmarks so that everyone gets to keep their job.
- Hedge fund managers got to keep all the money they made through risky bets during the bull market, even if their investors lost money on those risky bets during the bear market.
- Financial advisors have been able to point to the long-term historical returns of their asset allocation models and mollify their clients with the fact that "no one could see this coming."
- Index fund managers have come close to their declining benchmarks and be rewarded for keeping trading expenses down.
- No one, except me, violated "The Prudent Man Rule."
It's all worked out great. They all met their goals within their constraints. Given the differences between my goals and constraints and those of these price-setters, I was able to meet ours, too.
It's romantic for me to think that I can pick stocks better than the next guy, but it's realistic for me to believe that we can reach a mutually beneficial transaction price based on our different goals and constraints.
My thinking on this philosophy evolved gradually. I spent a lot of time reading, doing analyses, writing, asking and answering questions. The list below is a distillation of the results of this process, rather than the process itself:
- Step One: Realize that you are different from most market price-setters in terms of goals and constraints.
- Step Two: Analyze how you can exploit these different goals and constraints to create a transaction that is Pareto Efficient for both parties.
- Step Three: Study enough to effectively analyze the long-term economic trends.
- Step Four: Figure out which asset classes will benefit the most from (or be hurt the least by) the economic trends you anticipate.
- Step Five: Implement the plan and stick with it even if it doesn't pay off right away.
YOU'RE a romantic if you think a free-e-mail from some guy makes you smarter than the best investment minds in the world! We're mostly making our purchases from central banks, pension fund managers, hedge funds, endowments and mutual funds. They don't hire stupid people. They don't make stupid trades.
When we come to the place where the road and the sky collide,
Throw me over the edge and let my spirit glide.
They told me I was gonna have to work for a living,
But all I wanna do is ride.
I don't care where we're goin' from here, honey, you decide.
Well, I spend my time at the bottom of a wishing well.
And I can hear my dreams singing clear as a bell.
I used to know where they ended and the world began,
But now it's getting hard to tell.
I could be just around the corner from heaven,
Or a mile from hell.
I'm just rolling away from yesterday
Behind the wheel of a stolen Chevrolet.
Gonna get a little higher, see if I can hotwire reality.
Well, can you see those dark clouds gathering up ahead?
They're gonna wash this planet clean like the Bible said.
Now you can hold on steady, try to be ready,
But, everybody's gonna get wet.
Don't think it won't happen just because it hasn't happened yet.
I'm just rolling away from yesterday
Behind the wheel of a stolen Chevrolet.
Gonna get a little higher, see if I can hotwire reality.
–Jackson Browne
What I'm trying to give you here is the logic behind why the Plumb Performance Portfolio© can work. You don't have to believe you have somehow stumbled across the smartest investor in the world. You haven't. But, what we do have going for us is different goals and constraints than most of the price-setters in the market. What I'm trying to do is use these differences to benefit the long-term returns of our portfolios.


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31st ANNUAL TURKISH DAY PARADE
56th street | madison avenue New York, NY 10022
31st Annual Turkish Day Parade and Festival will be held on Saturday, May 19th,2012 at 11.00 am . The event is organized by the Federation of Turkish American Associations(FTAA)- the oldest and largest Turkish American Umbrella Organization.
The Turkish-American Parade and Festival takes place in New York City in the month of May each year. This year, the Parade will begin at 11.00 am at 56 St and Madison Avenue and it will end on 47th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue. There will be performances by Mehter Band (The Oldest Ottoman Military Music Band), Turkish Folkdancers, famous Turkish singers Burak Kut, Ege, Demet Sagiroglu, and Esref Incioglu, along with performances by our guest Redhawk Native American Dance Group, Turkic Dance Groups and other outstanding ethnic dances during the Turkish Day Parade and Festival.
FTAA President Ali Cinar says, �We invite all New Yorkers and people from the Tri-State area to come and enjoy this colorful and amazing event! The Turkish-American Day Parade and Festival in New York City, has been accepted as the greatest Turkish Cultural event outside of Turkey. The host of the event, FTAA, an umbrella organization which represents more than 1,250,000 Turks of Turkey, Europe, Turkic Countries, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and stronger with more than 47 components and more than 200 sister organizations throughout the Unites States.�
This is a free event
56th street
madison avenue
New York, NY 10022 Directions | Subway
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sigrok is packaged as part of the official Fedora repositories.
To get PulseView and sigrok-cli, just use:
# yum install sigrok-cli pulseview
This will automatically pull in libsigrok and libsigrokdecode as a a dependency. Firmware is available in the sigrok-firmware-free (currently, nexus-osciprime) and sigrok-firmware-nonfree (currently, asix-sigma) packages.
Firmware for Cypress FX2-based devices is available in the sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw package.
Potential issues
GPSd claims USB-serial adapters
GPSd uses udev to detect when a USB-serial adapter is plugged in, then claims the tty interface while it probes for devices. This can take several minutes. During this time, trying to access the serial port as a regular user will fail with "Device or resource unavailable". You will not be able to use sigrok with the freshly plugged adapter while gpsd probes it. FT232 and PL2303 based adapters (and as many others) are affected by this.
If you do not use gpsd, then it is recommended to uninstall it:
# yum remove gpsd


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From Germany:
I am a 29 year old woman with Type 1 diabetes for 13 years. I have always been very brittle even after using in excess of 130 units of insulin per day. My internist felt that the insulin pump would be ideal for me and so I began using one. My control improved; however, I began developing severe abscesses at the infusion site requiring incision and drainage. I have had four such infections thus far. The most serious was a very severe submuscular infection resulting in DKA. Each has left a very large disfiguring scar. At my physician's advice I have discontinued its use for now. I was changing the infusion needle (first Soft-set, then bent needle) daily and disinfecting my skin with Hibiclens and alcohol. Will I ever be able to use the pump safely? What do you recommend?
I would not use the alcohol at all. Only use something like Betadine or Hibiclens. Always change your site after showering. You must ask about topical antibiotics or steroids at the site. I would change the site every 48 hours and do it with your diabetes educator or pump rep several times to be sure you're doing it correctly. Also start fresh with completely new supplies and insulin. Perhaps you got a bad batch of either.
Definitely try the pump again and take extreme precaution when changing the site. Perhaps even use sterile gloves.
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Memories of Life Before Child Vaccinations
I'm old enough to have memories of life before child vaccinations were a standard part of growing up. Yes, we all got two kinds of measles, the mumps, scarlet fever, chicken pox. and, yes, most of us survived. Many babies suffered with whooping cough. Yes, we mostly ended up with natural immunity. But I'm here to tell you that when the vaccines against so many of these childhood diseases were introduced, our parents didn't hesitate for a minute to have younger siblings or grandchildren receive the shots or oral vaccines.
And when I became a parent I had no questions about immunizing my children. But let's back up one disease first. Let's talk about polio.
Polio, poliomyelitis, also known as infantile paralysis, was a disease that terrified my parents and their peers. In most cases the infection was mild, similar to the flu, but in one-half to one percent of cases permanent muscle weakness and paralysis occurred. This may sound like a small number, but if the disease swept through an area the results were significant. My small town school had 750 students K-12. An epidemic of the polio virus would have left 3-8 students dead or disabled. That would have been a serious shock in a close community.
In fact, there were numerous people in my town who were affected by polio. One teacher wore braces and walked with crutches. Many adults walked with a limp or had limited use of a hand. They didn't like to talk about it, but when questioned admitted they had polio as a child. The people who died from it were spoken of in hushed voices. I went to college with a man in an iron lung who attended classes through a remote TV hookup. This was pretty unusual in the 1960s.
There was a nationwide outbreak of polio in 1952. Pictures like the first one of a room full of iron lungs frightened everyone, as well they should. Having to accept that a huge machine forcing air in and out of your lungs was the only thing holding you on the side of life vs. death, and praying that you would recover enough to be able to leave the machine behind was a grim outlook. Parents agonized to see their children helpless.
In 1952, I was four years old. Every time I got a cold one of my symptoms, in addition to fever, headache and pain was a stiff neck. This is also a specific symptom of polio. Let me tell you, even as a small child, I could tell my mother was very frightened when I told her I had a stiff neck.
When, in 1955, the school lined us all up in the nurse's office and we were all inoculated with the brand new (think "no long history of known side effects") Salk polio vaccine, trust me there wasn't a parent who said, "oh, you are not giving my child something I don't understand." And within just a few years polio was nearly wiped out. It is still prevalent in some countries of the world, but the World Health Organization hopes it will be eliminated by 2018. That said, there have been attacks, both philosophically and literally, on those who are proponents of the vaccinations. One claim was that the vaccine was a western plot against Muslims and as a result new outbreaks of polio have occurred in Syria, Nigeria, and Somalia.
But no one should wish for a return to the days when polio ravaged people's lives. There is no treatment for polio, it must run its course. But it is preventable.
Before polio, smallpox was the real test case for the efficiency of vaccines. In 1796, Edward Jenner discovered that by giving people a mild case of cowpox they developed immunity to smallpox. There is some evidence that other cultures around the world attempted some form of generating natural immunity through introducing the disease into people on purpose and hoping it would be mild. The mortality rate from smallpox is 30-35%, and those who survived were usually left with horrible scars. No one is sorry that this disease has been considered by WHO as eradicated from the planet since 1979.
Only one drug was ever shown to be effective as treatment for smallpox, and it caused serious kidney damage. But the vaccine has eliminated the need for treatments.
Now to the diseases that some consider less serious, measles, mumps, and rubella (German Measles). I am old enough to remember stories of people who died from measles, men who were impotent from having mumps as adults, and people left blinded by rubella. Babies died or were damaged by their mothers contracting rubella while pregnant. These are not dusty history to me. These are real people I knew. While in grade school, a boy in the class below me died of scarlet fever.
Moving from anecdotes and memories, the statistics speak for themselves. Before widespread vaccination, measles was responsible for 2.6 million deaths a year. After the year 2000, when most children received the vaccination, deaths dropped by 75%. The measles vaccine has been called "the best buy in public health." It is still a serious killer in countries with poor health care systems. There is no treatment for measles, but it is preventable.
Rubella kills and causes defect in unborn children, when contracted by a pregnant woman. Worldwide, there are 110,000 babies born with congenital defects from this cause each year. There is no treatment for rubella, but it is preventable.
Now, I am aware that there are articles abounding on the internet supposedly showing that cases of disease and death from these various causes has not declined at all. One such article claimed that doctors were simply mis-diagnosing other illnesses as measles, for example, because it was common, and that after the vaccine was introduced doctors stopped diagnosing it because they expected to see fewer cases. Of course, there are some doctors who might not be rigorous, but this outright assault on the ability of the medical profession to see the observable symptoms and confidently call measles, measles, is ridiculous. It's similar to the arguments that the holocaust never happened just because very few people are alive who remember it.
The supposed links between vaccines and autism have been proven to be non-existent. The original study was completely fraudulent, and has been retracted. Subsequent, highly rigorous studies, have shown that there is no connection at all. Yet, a quarter of adults in the United States continue to believe there is a connection. We seem determined to believe lies just because we may not understand a complicated disorder.
Like parents in the 1950s who were given hope for a healthy future for their children by the Salk polio vaccine, I suspect that if someone could produce a vaccine against autism–the big scare of this generation–parents today would be eager to give it a try, saying "anything is better than what we are living through now." (Let me add that a vaccine against autism is unlikely, if not an impossibility. Autism is a group of genetic disorders, not a communicable disease.)
Those who choose not to vaccinate their children (and I have some friends in this group), put everyone at risk. Pockets of outbreaks that occur are often associated with unvaccinated populations.
I hope and pray that as those of us with memories of life before child vaccinations die off, people will not abandon sound medical preventatives that have saved millions of lives, and millions of people from deformities and handicaps.
Photo of iron lungs from Wikipedia, Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, Downey, California: public domain
Photo of children being immunized from Wikipedia, Department of the Interior: public domain
Photo of child with smallpox from CDC Public Health Image Library, James Hicks: public domain
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