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Sunday, 26 February 2012
All New People
Last Saturday I went to see 'All New People' at the Kings Theatre in Glasgow; a play written by and starring Zach Braff. I used to love him in Scrubs and loved his film Garden State so it was exciting to see him on stage.
There was a good buzz in the theatre as the play opened with River Dance type music... I half expected Mr Braff to paddy bar onto the stage dressed in a kilt but no, he swung out hanging from a rope instead. A powerful opening scene which was unfortunately ruined as soon as Eve Myles opened her mouth. She played a highly strung English woman, Emma, and for the first 40 minutes or so her voice was so high pitched and performance overplayed that I was worried she was going to ruin the whole play. It was a relief when Braff's character, Charlie, started to talk and when the other two arrived; Myron the fireman (Paul Hilton) and a high class prostitute, Kim (Susannah Fielding). For me the latter two provided the true comedy moments. I've read some mixed reviews of the play; some disappointed with it and others thinking it was hilarious. I thought the humour was a bit obvious at times but there were some good gags which provided a light contrast to Charlie's suicidal disposition. I liked the premise of a group of strangers being thrown together and finding comfort in random connections. And apart from Myles' shaky start I thought the acting was impressive. The insertion of screens playing out each of the characters' backstory throughout was a clever use of mixed media and added depth to the production.
However I did wonder if Braff had subconsciously tried to recreate his depressive charater in Garden State...I couldn't help draw comparisons and then got to thinking without a smart quirky female character like Sam to pull him out of himself, Charlie remained a bit half drawn. I still really liked it though and the fact Braff conducted a very charming, down to earth Q and A session afterwards made for a very pleasant theatre trip.(see rubbish quality photo at the top of the posting of him waving a microphone about). In case you're interested he tried a deep fried Mars Bar on his visit to Glasgow and he really likes Irish River Dance music...(but let's not hold that against him).
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Since the start of 2012 I've felt like the creative side of my brain stayed behind in 2011. I've been trying hard to write and it's just not been flowing so instead of trying to force a project I started working on at the end of 2011, I turned to a new challenge. Writing prose using only 5 letter words and then a snippet of a story (?) using only 4 letter words. I've discovered I can only complete these tasks by scribbling in a notebook which makes me wonder if that helps me access a different side of my creative brain as when I write longer prose I always type. If I ever attempt to write poetry I usually need to handwrite that too. Any other writers reading this have a similar experience? Writing these also made me realise how much I love language and words. But I guess all writers must be a bit in love with words...:)
So here's the results below, starting with the 5 letter prose:
Glass tears cried under night skies. Fears wound round hopes, kills dream. Arise lunar magic. Chase angst; grief given wings. Faded ghost flies where stars blaze; their light heals tired lives. Clock stops after final music plays.
Dead Soul
"Lola what?"
"Just Lola."
Kurt knew this type: Fool.
Lola knew this type: Prat.
Kurt knew this town. Dump.
Lola said, "Dunn lost. Just like here."
"Lost what?" said Kurt.
"Love...life. Lost soul make dead life."
"Fine here. Life here good!" said Kurt.
"Eyes shut. Open them."
"Wide open, girl."
"Kurt deny?"
"Kurt think Lola real dumb girl."
"Life have pain with lost love."
"Find more love then."
"Just like that?"
"Just like that. Easy." said Kurt.
"Kurt love?"
"Love none baby. Just f*** - stay free!"
"Sure, keep mind open. Mind free…then find love. That make long life." said Lola.
"Okay, done here. Read over, print name, sign…"
"Take care, Kurt. Your eyes look dead. Feed soul."
Then Lola left.
Dead eyes? Kurt felt fear.
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2017-02-22 / Front Page Elm Hill principal plans June resignation to pursue other options By TORY JONES firstname.lastname@example.com Dana Jacobson-Goodhue — COURTESY Dana Jacobson-Goodhue — COURTESY SPRINGFIELD — Elm Hill Primary School Principal Dana Jacobson-Goodhue will be leaving the elementary school in June, after five years as principal. "I am so grateful for the time I've had," Jacobson-Goodhue said in a telephone interview on Tuesday, Feb. 21. "It was my first administrative role." Jacobson-Goodhue said she knew that at some point she would have to decide whether to stay on as a primary school administrator, or to leave or expand that role to other grade levels. The Elm Hill Primary School serves students in grades K-2. Now that she has reached the five-year mark, she has decided to expand her professional career and the age range of students she works with to include other grades, she said. "It has been such a good experience," she said. Superintendent Zack McLaughlin shared Jacobson-Goodhue's resignation letter with the Springfield School Board at a board meeting on Monday, Feb. 20. Her resignation will take effect on June 30. McLaughlin said the resignation would not put the district in a bind, and that searches for administrators have begun later in the school year in the past. Jacobson-Goodhue said she is interested in pursuing other options. She is still looking, and did not have immediate plans, she said. She also said that it would be ideal to have another job lined up, but that she wanted to be sure that Springfield parents, teachers and community members had time to prepare for her exit and to interview job applicants, she said on Tuesday. Jacobson-Goodhue signed a contract with the school board in early 2012 to serve as principal at Elm Hill Primary School after a few months as assistant principal and then interim principal at the school. In her resignation request, she asked that the school board agree to release her from the second year of her most recent contract, according to the meeting minutes. School board member Jeanice Garfield moved, with a second by Laura Ryan, to accept Jacobson-Goodhue's resignation, effective June 30. The school board voted all in favor. Springfield's Jacobson-Goodhue to leave Elm Hill Rutland Herald | February 22, 2017 By SUSAN SMALLHEER STAFF WRITER Dana Jacobson-Goodhue Elm Hill School Principal Dana Jacobson-Goodhue Elm Hill School Principal SPRINGFIELD — Elm Hill School Principal Dana Jacobson-Goodhue will be leaving at the end of the school year. The Springfield School Board accepted her resignation Monday night, agreeing to let Jacobson-Goodhue out of the second year of her two-year contract. She wanted to expand the age level of the school she administers, she said and is already looking for a position either at a K-5 or K-8 school. There's nothing like that available in Springfield, she said. Jacobson-Goodhue, who is known by her students as Mrs. J-G, has been principal at the K-2 primary school for the past five years. She had been doing her principal internship and was acting principal when she was tapped for the permanent position in February 2012. Her resignation takes effect at the end of June. The school had gone through four administrators in about six months, she said. "This was my first role as principal, and I always knew I would be here for three to five years," said Jacobson- Goodhue, who lives with her family in Hartland. "I love the children and the families. It's sort of a professional choice." Jacobson-Goodhue said she thought last year about applying for the Union Street School principal job, but felt she still had things to accomplish at Elm Hill. She said the school community is very happy with the leadership of Union Street Principal Nancy Wiese. Before coming to Vermont, Jacobson-Goodhue was a middle school teacher in Connecticut and went back to school to study administration. When she started at Elm Hill, enrollment was about 300, but it dropped, then held steady for the past couple of years and is now about 280 students. "(Average class size is) larger than I would like," she said. However, the proposed 2017-18 school budget would cut paraprofessionals at Elm Hill in favor of hiring two new classroom teachers in the attempt to bring the class size down from its current average of about 20. " I really have accomplished what I set out to do," she said. She said some of the students who are entering primary school in Springfield have higher needs than used to be the case. She pointed to the fact that, five years ago, a large percentage of children born at Springfield Hospital had been exposed to opiates. " Children now have higher needs, emotional deregulations," she said. Young students come to school and preschool without the necessary social skills, she said, things like sharing, taking turns or understanding numbers. "They don't know their letters," she said. Jacobson-Goodhue said she was resigning even before she had another job so Springfield could start the search process as quickly as possible. "There are lots of good people out there," she said. Superintendent Zachary McLaughlin told School Board members Monday night that Jacobson-Goodhue's resignation would give the district enough time to find a new principal for the early grades. He said that while most searches begin in January, he felt the board had enough time to find a good principal.

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Very often we lack Joy & Victory in our life. It's is his purpose for us to enjoy all these Earthly things. We must not turn our back to his Wildly Amazing Creations.
What I know for me I find Joy in Running. I find Victory in following through with my daily endeavors with food & fitness. "I fall I get up- I keep going" I don't let my past keep me from what I'm supposed to be doing.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a pure heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within
God does not want you to quit. He does not want you to give up on yourself. He is waiting and watching you. Don't turn your back toward him because he has not taken away your pain or sorrows. He needs you to learn to forgive yourself and he wants you to ask for forgiveness. Repent & Move On.
Psalm 37:24
though he stumble, he will not fall,
for the Lord upholds him with his
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
You Can't Own God
This is basic stuff in Catholicism.
As such, a consecrated Host - the Eucharist - is not an article of property. You can't own the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. The very idea is absurd and contrary to every teaching on the Real Presence. No human can assert ownership over Jesus as if He were mere chattel.
An unconsecrated host, being merely a kind of bread, can and is property. But once it is consecrated it is no longer possible to be a species of property. And to claim that the Host still is property and that can be owned - that anyone can own the Body of Christ, the Divinity of Christ - is among the highest kinds of hubris that one can imagine.
Clearly, anyone who would claim that the Eucharist is property capable of being owned is either a heretic of the grossest kind or he is someone who really hasn't quite thought through the ramifications of his too-cute-by-half argument.
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By using extraordinary means to retrieve that Host, perhaps positive attention will be drawn to the abomination which is the black mass, thereby educating people.
- August 22, 2014 at 8:23 PM
Sometimes drastic measures are necessary to get people's attention. In this case, maybe people will understand that the black mass is an abomination and maybe it will help get rid of Communion in the hand.
- August 23, 2014 at 12:41 AM
- Bender said...
Actually, rather than engendering respect, by calling the Eucharist "property" which we can "own," one ends up fostering disrespect. Rather than showing that the black mass is an abomination, calling the Blessed Sacrament a mere thing ends up justifying it.
You can't desecrate a piece of property.
If the Eucharist is something that we can have dominion over, then Christ is not King and He is not God. To paraphrase Flannery O'Connor, if the Eucharist is just a thing, just a piece of property, to hell with it.
Yes, it is a drastic measure, it is grasping at straws to call the Eucharist property which we can own as part of a legal tactic. But in winning the battle, we end up losing the war. By gaining the world, we lose our soul. That profits us nothing.
And it all could have been avoided if instead of a specious theory of "ownership," a much more theologically sound assertion of "custody" or "guardianship" had been put forward.
- August 23, 2014 at 10:20 AM
Then what is the answer? Two of those things making national news in a couple of months is not good.
- August 23, 2014 at 11:47 PM
- Bender said...
What's the answer??
The same answer as everything else -- love in truth.
Truth. Not gimmicks.
Love. Not legal force.
We appeal to consciences. We seek to convert. We do not impose, we simply propose.
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Out in my backyard garden the daisies are in bloom...
So I felt compelled to make these:
etsy shop now. I will devote much of today to making a new batch of rings but would love to incorporate the colors of these beauties...
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Those earrings are gorgeous!
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Fairly large cannon (first one)
I stumbled upon this site as well as spudtech and a bunch of other potato cannon sites, and decided it would be fun to make one, so I did a bunch of research while waiting for school to get out. I have finally finished and tested my potato cannon to about 30 psi. I have only gotten one shot off due to short time, but it managed to break one of those aerosol can caps on a wall (realize that this is inside, so I am not shooting anything that could do any damage.) so here are some pics. And this is my first cannon, so call me a wimp, but the valve is a mauler purchased online. I will post more pics tomorrow once I have tested it to higher psi and moved it outside and shot something worth shooting.
The barrel is 12 feet long, though in three parts so it can be taken to 4, 8, or 12 feet. I believe the C/B ratio is around 1:1.8 or something.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6emanSMUD4
I managed to get a golf ball through 1 inch (2 .5 inch plates) of plywood at less than 50 psi
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that thing is quite big. is there a problem with your sprinkler valve, why is it open like that? are you going to make a mount for it, because it looks way to big to hold. you should also make a barrel support, so it doesn't put so much stress on your elbows and T.
I couldn't find a blowgun valve, so i just stuck a .5 inch ball valve in it. It works fine. i will either make a stand, or if I am too lazy, just stack books and other stuff to hold the barrel up.
edit: oops, didn't understand your question, the sprinkler valve is open because these photos were taken before shooting, and I hadn't closed up the modded valve.
Whats the barrel and chamber diameter?
Nice cannon, good that your utilizing most of the air pressure with the long barrel so no power wasted.
The chamber is 4 inch pvc rated to 220 psi and 4 feet long, barrel is 1.7 inch golfball.
You should add a barrel support which will support the barrel and help keep all the strain off the tee fittings when you pick it up.
Yeah, that would be nice, I have a bunch of acrylic plates lying around somewhere that would work pretty well as supports. But tomorrow I'm just gonna shoot stuff... done enough work on it today.
Also, If I balance it perfectly on a tripod, I could aim it effortlessly...
Very very nice, but it would be a great idea to give the barrel some support before you go shooting it. The recoil will put that elbow under a lot of stress, and it would really suck if it broke. Other than that its an excellent cannon. Great work!
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pretrty formidable for a first effort, though it certainly could use a bit of support as greater pressures and heavier projectiles will increase the recoild forces considerably and could potentially damage the cannon.
A little efficiency point, there's too much dead space behind the piston, you should mount the sprinkler valve directly to the back of the piston, and epoxy your filling schrader directly to the fitting - there's no need to close it off with a ball valve.
this is the (second) best first gun i have ever seen. i have t ogive yuo second because of schmanmans swat you should have just made the piston valve because when you first make a piston valve and it works you are extatic..
4" piston valved cannon-half done..( i spilt my cement...)
Hybrid- 75% done. need to build propane holder and drill/tap sparkplug hole..
You could also reduce pilot volume by using pipe nipples and threaded fittings instead of male adapters.
Summer Projects:
CO2 tank hybrid: Gotta fix the meter
Cane gun: Needs a pilot/fill setup
1.5" piston valve gun: Almost done
Does dead space in the pilot area make a difference?
I noticed that It did have a pretty large space between time of sprinkler valve going off, and time of firing... like around one second
and spudthug, I was pretty ecstatic that it worked anyways
Oh yeah! If you mounted your valve directly to the back of your piston like JSR said, it should actuate instantly. The seal on your piston can't be to good if it takes that long to fire though.
Summer Projects:
CO2 tank hybrid: Gotta fix the meter
Cane gun: Needs a pilot/fill setup
1.5" piston valve gun: Almost done
Okay I finally shot something. An arrow, with a plastic bag sabot. It went thru a tube that I had laying around, and the best part is... I got it on video!
so I'll post when I figure out how.
EDIT: got it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6emanSMUD4
you might notice that the barrel comes off, that is not a problem, I haven't gotten around to glueing the barrel to the valve fitting. I'm still debating whether to get camlocks or put some other finesse on it.
EDIT: this is 33 psi and 1/3 of the barrel, my parents don't want me going over 35 psi while they are not there...
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Many businesses have lost their private sector work. Businesses with any relation to real estate were hit hard by the recession. These businesses include real estate brokers and agents, construction concerns, interior designs, architects, land surveyors, civil engineers, and building permit expeditors. I went to a doctor visit and my doctor was hit hard too. When her clients got laid off, they no longer had health insurance. A lot of my colleagues in the insurance industry were hit hard too because insurance was dropped by many as they trimmed their budgets. Therefore, going after government work may be the only viable option to survive this down economy.
My business Lemongrass Consulting helped with zoning applications, community outreach, and permitting large commercial private sector building developments. We were hit hard in 2008 and shifted gears in 2009. I turned to teaching business law and contracting. I re-engineered and turned my firm toward offering customized, affordable strategic plans to small businesses. I now teach government contracting for the Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center (GTPAC).
Here are five (5) tips for going after government sector work:
1. Develop a strategy – Based on work you enjoyed doing in the past, figure out the type of work you want to do and with what government agencies. You do not want to shot gun your approach and bid on anything that comes your way. You want to be credible. You want to do work that you will likely deliver on time and within budget because you love what you are doing. Given your past work experiences in product sales or service offerings, figure out which agencies buy what you sell. Also, make the agencies that have a nexus to your background a priority.
For example, if you served in the military, then military bases should be a priority if they buy what you sell. My background is in planning – urban, transportation, community outreach, strategic planning. So, government agencies with planning departments are ideal. With respect to transportation, more specifically, agencies in the transportation horizontal construction of road and bridge work are ideal.
Your strategic plan can be as simple as a list of government agencies to target. Start close to home and branch out – your city, county, state agencies, and federal agencies. Target about 5 agencies at first and then branch out.
2. Aggressively go after work – Armed with your strategic list of government agencies to target, look for bid opportunities and forecasts of purchases that they intend to buy. If you do not bid on work, you will never win a government contract. You must be appropriately aggressive in going after government work. You have to read bid solicitations and follow through by preparing bids for submittal. You also need not wait until a bid opportunity is advertised. Drill down through each target agency and figure out what type of work you want to help them with or which products you sell that they will likely buy. Then offer those products and services to the agencies. Send them print materials and emails and make offers.
3. Build relationships – This is the most important part of government contracting. It is all about people. Once you stop focusing on contracts and dollars coming in, and begin to see contracting officials people with real world people needs, then you can build the kind of relationships you need to have to do well in government contracting. Just like you, each contracting official has a name, maybe a family, they have a past, and they have future aspirations. Get to know them. Ask for face to face appointments or conference calls and chat. One of my mentors told me that I needed to learn how to hang out. He hangs out and network at trade functions, on the golf course, and at parties. You have to make time to build a network of people you can count on for leads and assistance.
4. Follow up – As you build relationships with government officials, follow through on any leads they give you. They may tell you to talk with a prime that already has a contract with them. Perhaps this will lead to subcontracting work for you. They may tell you which end users to meet – e.g. department heads or project managers. You need to make sure you are reaching decision makers. For services, find out how vendor selections are made and who have typically sat on selection committees. For products, you want to get to know the contracting officials, the purchase card holders, and the end users with budget. These are individuals that you need to get to know.
5. Show appreciation – Whenever someone helps you, be sure to thank them. Be careful about gift giving to make sure you do not break any rules.
Speaking of rules, you need to study the rules of the game of government contracting. You cannot play a game when you do not know the rules. So, you should be sure to take government contracting classes to learn more about vendor registrations, certifications for set aside work, and other topics.
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Completed in 1834, Fort Morgan was active during four wars—the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II. The fort is most famous for its role in the Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay. Union Admiral David Farragut damned the torpedoes and went full speed ahead to win the battle. The massive fort contains more than 40 million bricks and pays tribute to the skilled masons, many of whom were enslaved African Americans.
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PETALING JAYA: About 30 Indonesian students pelted the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta with rotten eggs and attempted to raise an Indonesian flag at the gate on Tuesday.
The attack, believed spurred by allegations that the Malaysian national anthem Negara Ku had been copied from the Indonesian song Terang Bulan, came a day after Malaysia celebrated its 52nd National Day.
The Indonesian flag was raised from the embassy gate after a tug-of-war between police and students.
The attack was also reportedly triggered by allegations that a Balinese dance had been used to promote a television show about Malaysia, although it was revealed that no Malaysian government agency had a role in the advertisement.
An embassy official in Jakarta told The Star that nobody was hurt in the incident but added that there have been regular demonstrations at the Embassy over the last few months, especially during the Ambalat issue.
That issue came up after Indonesia claimed that Malaysian warships had entered the Ambalat area in the Sulawesi sea in early June.
"The still ongoing demonstration here is being heavily monitored by the police, but no demonstrators have been stopped or arrested," said the embassy official.
He said that everything was under control at the embassy, adding that the demonstration would not affect ties between the two countries.
Local media quoted a demonstrator as saying that the protest was a symbolic act to demand that the Indonesian government break off diplomatic ties with Malaysia and evict the Malaysian ambassador.


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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Just a Reminder
I am constantly updating my A Little Guide for Your Last Days blogsite as I find wonderful new offerings on the meaning of suffering, loss, death, and the last four things. I strongly recommend that you save its address under "Reality Check."
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
50 Great Wedding Centerpieces From Martha Stewart
We love Martha. That's why we had to share this gallery of 50 great centerpieces featured on Martha Stewart Weddings throughout the years. If you're still stuck trying to decide what your wedding decor will be, get ready to be inspired!Click on the image above to see all 50
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Early Sketches
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Made clouds
Created using this tutorial – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJnFh25FG6I
I didn't follow his numbers exactly which is why my clouds may look a little different but that's what I was hoping for, for them to look slightly different and more unique.
I won't be using the clouds but I wanted to see if I could make them.
Programs I'll be using
Mood Board and Reference Board
Floor Plan
What I want my restaurant shack to look like, the kitchen will be an empty room and you won't be able to enter it. It'll have a door but that's it. Everything else is open and has three beams supporting it up. A bar, (still in design mode) and table and chairs are still to be put into the shack. I'll do another floor plan for the island itself which I'm planning to have boats on shore and palm trees.


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I consolidated a domain recently and moved the domain controller to use our primary domain instead of its own distinct domain (long story why it was setup this way to begin with). However, shortly after my user account started getting locked out periodically. The problem was that something was trying to login using olddomain\myaccount, but the olddomain domain didn't exist anymore. Since I have an account on newdomain named myaccount, it was locking that account out instead seeing multiple invalid logins for that username.
I first figured it had to do with a service running using the old credentials, but ruled that out quickly. The Windows security logs were less than helpful, besides allowing me to see the times of the login attempts. I then turned to Wireshark but didn't find anything useful. Now that I had no evidence of it coming over the network, I determined it must be happening on this newly migrated DC itself. I enabled Netlogon logging, which confirmed that something on the newly migrated DC was using my credentials, but what?
Then I finally ran across this post. I had completely forgotten that dynamic DNS in DHCP requires you to setup login credentials. Sure enough, this was the cause of my problem. It's not best practice to set it up the way I had, but regardless, that's the way it was. I changed the dynamic registration credentials and lo and behold, no more lockouts.


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Earwax production is necessary for good ear health. While many people find earwax to be disgusting, it's actually a very important part of your ear's defense system. It protects the delicate inner ear from bacteria, fungus, dirt and even insects. It also cleans and lubricates the ear canal.
Babies are always born with blue eyes. The melanin in a
newborn's eyes often needs time after birth to be fully deposited or to
be darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light, later revealing the baby's
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers over life.
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
Nails and hair do not continue to grow after we die. They do
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Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.
By 60 years of age, 60-percent of men and 40-percent of women will snore.
Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is
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theorize that it's a combination of too much fun over the weekend with
the stress of going back to work that causes the increase.
Provided there is water, the average human could survive a month
to two months without food depending on their body fat and other
Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after
it is been decapitated. While it might be gross to think about, the
blood in the head may be enough to keep someone alive and conscious for a
few seconds after the head has been separated from the body, though
reports as to the accuracy of this are widely varying.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood the number is reduced to 206.
We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.
It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out
than it did to gain it. Lazy people out there shouldn't use this as
motivation to not work out, however. It's relatively easy to build new
muscle tissue and get your muscles in shape, so if anything, this fact
should be motivation to get off the couch and get moving.
Tears and mucus contain an enzyme (lysozyme) that breaks down the cell wall of many bacteria.
It is not possible to tickle yourself. Even the most ticklish among us do not have the ability to tickle ourselves.
The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your
whole body. While not exact down to the last millimeter, your armspan is
a pretty good estimator of your height.
Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears.
Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50
calories a day. Most men have a much easier time burning fat than women.
Women, because of their reproductive role, generally require a higher
basic body fat proportion than men, and as a result their bodies don't
get rid of excess fat at the same rate as men.
Koalas and primates are the only animals with unique
fingerprints. Humans, apes and koalas are unique in the animal kingdom
due to the tiny prints on the fingers of their hands.
One human hair can support 3.5 ounces. That's about the weight of
two full size candy bars, and with hundreds of thousands of hairs on
the human head, makes the tale of Rapunzel much more plausible.
Cna yuo raed tihs? I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty
uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid,
aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in
waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht
the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl
mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if
you can raed tihs forwrad it
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.


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Friday, July 22, 2011
Overcomers: Friday Five
With that in mind I bring you this Friday Five; List five people who inspire you to dare to step out into becoming more: Bonus question, a song or fictional character that inspires you to move beyond boundaries!
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Here I attempted to explain...what was a challenging topic. Sally, I loved the artwork you chose too.ReplyDelete
Thank you for this INSPIRATIONAL FF! I feel like I can breathe now.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Sally for reminding in whose footsteps I trod.ReplyDelete
Finally got around to playing myself : hereReplyDelete
I went for "The More" hereReplyDelete
Thanks Sally.
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2011 at 11:32 AM
I love that painting used in the post. Who is the artist? Does anyone know the full title?ReplyDelete
We're doing a sermon series called "The Artful Life" using different paintings each week and I'd love to use this one at some point!
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 10:38 AM
I heard from Sally via email that the artist is He Qi. Thanks! :)ReplyDelete
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two days in a row, wow!
shoveled three times yesterday about an inch or so each time. Mostly heavy wet snow although the last shift, last night, the snow had changed to a more powdery version. Much easier to move.
Woke this morning to 4" in the driveway from the overnight activity.
Still powdery but with 4" took more time to move.
I turned around after clearing the driveway only to find it was already white behind me!
More shoveling scheduled for later
Take it easy when you do your shoveling. Be careful if you do venture out to drive!


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Equity futures are just above even this morning following yesterday's 280 point nose dive. The dollar has lost all of yesterday's gain and then some, yet the moves in equities and commodities are not reflecting that move lower in the dollar as they have been. Bonds are lower this morning, oil is slightly higher after a large drop yesterday, gold is hanging tough after rising yesterday (hint), silver is up slightly after getting nailed again yesterday, and most food commodities are higher today after a large move down yesterday.
Okay, so we know that the market is about 95% fluff, so why now? The data has been bad for weeks, so more bad data doesn't seem like a likely candidate to me, although the manufacturing and housing data is obviously sliding off the proverbial cliff. No, the suspicious me is feeling manipulated again – we're up against the debt ceiling, European countries are not complying by sucking IMF debt fast enough, and the end of QE2 is rapidly approaching. Is a threat being made somewhere along the lines of "See, this is what happens if you don't comply?" Hmmm, I am suspicious because I know how the central bankers (who own and control the markets) work, and I've seen them do this time and again.
The more I view the market, the more I realize that it is a political tool and not the "free market" fantasized about by countless technicians – at least it's no longer a free market, it's more like a manipulative hologram.
Still, if one is doing TA on it, there is what appears to be a large bear flag following yesterday's downstroke so it's possible that there's more to come:
The bad data flow continues with the Weekly Jobless Claims this morning coming in at 422,000 – still well above that 400k mark. This is down slightly from 424k last week and is worse than expected. Again, it takes this number getting below 350k, and staying there, to indicate job growth, and that has not happened yet. Here's Econospin calling this number "good," although I don't know how anyone can – note yet another revision higher to last week's data, that means this week's number is somehow "good?"
In badly needed good news on the jobs market, initial jobless claims are easing a bit from elevated levels. Claims fell 6,000 in the May 28 week to 422,000 (prior week revised to 428,000). The four-week average of 425,500 is down a sizable 14,000 and compares well with the month-ago level of 432,250. There are no special factors skewing the data with tornado-hit Missouri reporting some trouble but not enough to affect the total. Continuing claims are little changed, down 1,000 in data for the May 21 week to 3.711 million with the unemployment rate for insured workers unchanged at 3.0 percent. This report probably won't improve expectations for tomorrow's monthly jobs report but at least it won't be deepening pessimism.
Factory Orders will be released at 10 Eastern, we'll report on that inside of the Daily Thread.
Note the sudden shift in the need to "keep the 'Fed's' balance sheet high," as if their "balance sheet" isn't just an off the books addition to our national debt…
Fed May Signal Balance Sheet Will Stay at Record Amid Slowdown
June 2 (Bloomberg) -- A wave of surprisingly weak data on the U.S. economy may spur Federal Reserve policy makers to support growth by making it clear they're in no hurry to shrink the central bank's record balance sheet.
There's a "strong possibility" that the Federal Open Market Committee will say following the June 21-22 meeting that it will keep reinvesting proceeds from maturing debt for a while, said Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York. Previously, the FOMC has said it will keep the benchmark interest rate near zero for an "extended period" without a similar pledge about its balance sheet.
Yesterday's reports showing manufacturing grew at the slowest pace in more than a year in May and employers added fewer jobs than forecast prompted Feroli to cut his estimate for second-quarter economic growth. The slowdown may push policy makers to consider what options are left after their second $600 billion round of asset purchases sparked a Republican backlash. Saying the balance sheet won't shrink immediately could dispel any notion that the Fed is about to push up borrowing costs.
"The idea of extending the period in which they maintain this level of accommodation is an easy call, a natural call and the right call," said Neal Soss, chief economist for Credit Suisse Holdings USA Inc. in New York. A third round of asset purchases "is so contentious within the committee and the broader political environment, that they aren't going to go there. That makes it very unlikely."
What hogwash! The impossible math ensures that another round of QE is coming, count on it. If printing is halted at any point now, the impossible math dictates that a wave of deflation strikes. So, deflation, inflation, name your poison. You are being manipulated by/in the markets and your wealth is going to be transferred to them one way or the other as long as they are the ones in control of producing money. Central bankers are like a disease. You must treat the disease and stop talking about the symptoms.
Oh, yeah, as I type those bearish flags are breaking down… hope you didn't buy into the LNKD IPO hype!


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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Farming The Old To Get The Gold
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I would like to point out a "working as intended bug", those little goblins that drop the Elementium Ingots hold a secret and that is that they will only allow you to loot the item if you haven't killed 62 mobs that can drop the item. I raised a ticket from a GM and got the responseReplyDelete
"Elemetium Ingots are a valuable epic item that drops from thrash and doesn't bind when picked up. In order to prevent these items from being farmed excessively, a restriction was placed on the looting of this item. One you have killed 62 Blackwing Technicians, you will no longer be able to loot any more Elementium Ingots, even though you will see them drop and will be prompted to roll on them."
Well that's a bit of a useful information that i didn't know but still even with 62 of those pesky goblins it's a nice drop ratio from them and will still net you some good goldReplyDelete


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Got this picture from a Facebook page called, Hog Trapping. This is unbelievable! I'm definitely looking forward to getting a hog. It's on my bucket list!
A Dixie Lady Deer Hunter
Article by Fred Messina, editor of "On Target Outdoors" from The Vicksburg Evening Post on Friday, January 19, 1990. Photo by Bob Phillips.
Bob Phillips came up the other day with a photo of his wife Marian and a deer she got on Brown's Point New Years Eve. The deer was an 8-point with 16 inches of inside spread that weighed in at 190 pounds. A nice trophy in anyone's book. However, the tale Bob told is that this was Marian's fourth deer this year and he claimed that he would have done better than he did if he had not spent so much time hauling Marian's deer out of the woods. Come off it, Bob. We all know who the hunter was.
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A Mess Of Hogs
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Book Talk: Immigration, India and Women
Join us this Wed. at 7 pm at the Central Library for a talk by award-winning Brandeis Professor Harleen Singh. She'll discuss the themes of immigration and women's roles in The Namesake and other novels of the Indian Diaspora. It's sure to be fascinating!
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Procurando chifre em cabeça de cavalo - Looking for antlers/horns on a horse's head
You're looking for complications when something's actually simple; you're making things harder than they need to be.
i.e. When taking a multiple choice test you get to the answer of a question really quick and then start thinking "no, it can't be that easy. I must've done something wrong."


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One of my Facebook friends posted an article about a gay couple who have been accused of molesting several of the boys they adopted. The article is written pretty objectively. It didn't assume the allegations were true. Some would write it as exemplifying how evil homosexuals are, and this particular friend frequently posts messages about that. I suspect that was his intention this time too. I frequently disagree with him. It would be one thing if heterosexuals automatically behaved better than homosexuals. They do not.
My wife tells me of a girl she knew when they were both in their early teens. The girl told her she and her father were having sex, and showed her the building where this was going on. My wife told me about a day when they were taking a walk and encountered my wife's brother and some of his friends. One of his friends called the girl away to have sex with her. She went and came back. Another called her, and she went and came back. Then another.
I don't know, but suspect that the girl had a sad life. It sounds very much as if she didn't feel she could say no to sex, whether she wanted it herself or not. Because of heterosexuals.
Perhaps we should warn people about the heterosexual agenda, which seems to be about molesting children.
The sentence above sounds counter-intuitive. It's also at least an exaggeration. Many heterosexuals are perfectly decent people, contrary to negative stereotypes about them. A lot of people have trouble believing the same is true of most minorities. Almost all of us like scapegoats to blame things on.
It's easy to assume that gay men like to molest children. Actually, a significant number of pedophiles have sexual relationships with adult women too, and don't confine their molestation to one gender. Heterosexuals are probably less likely to be used to being used as scapegoats than minorities are. They don't like it any better than minorities do either, often claiming to be victims themselves, of reverse racism or anti-Christian bias, for instance. They seem not to imagine that anyone else might resent being blamed for bad or even criminal behavior.
Sexuality is, for better or worse, one of the main sources of human motivation, which means that power comes into the equation. If a person can, through being larger and physically stronger than a woman, force her to have sex with him, there are always men who will be tempted to do just that. The same is true in same-sex relationships, especially if men are involved. Testosterone can encourage men to be over-aggressive.
What's the lesson here? If you're powerful, you can punish someone for not having sex with you. You can also punish people for having sex in ways or with people you disapprove of.
The American South has long been notorious for racism, and disapproval of mixing the races. It took me a long time to realize that this, and the lynching that took place during segregation (we seem to have other forms of that now), were because white slave owners used black women sexually, and were afraid black men would return the favor. I really should have realized that sooner. As a favorite writer commented, no one erects a taboo against something that isn't tempting.
A modern example of this was Strom Thurmond, a very conservative and racist member of Congress for a long time. It was reported that one of his colleagues said that he really believed the stuff about miscegnation. Imagine popular surprise then when it came out after his death that he had an illegitimate daughter with a black woman. That suggests he hated himself as well as others.
Reaction formation is the term for a type of behavior which reduces anxiety by asserting the opposite of one's original feeling. Mr. Thurmond may well have felt humiliated by having succumbed to temptation. According to a news story, he gave his daughter money but never, when she and her mother visited him, called her mother by her name or acknowledged her as his daughter. Her mother had been a servant in his family home suggesting that Thurmond had felt entitled to have sex with her.
There's some plasticity in human sexuality. That's been noted in a number of circumstances. One was English public (private) schools, where upper class adolescent boys were segregated from women. Homosexuality became prevalent enough in that class that the word for it in Yiddish meant literally "the English disease".
Another area was among sailors, especially before technology made voyages much shorter. Sailing between continents took months. Whaling expeditions could last two or three years. Pirates in the heyday of piracy in the Caribbean rarely had access to women. Women were not included in more legitimate voyages either.
A third area is prison. An acquaintance went to prison for a year or two for marijuana, and someone who had been in prison himself advised him to find a protector to have a sexual relationship with. The friend had the advantage of being gay, he did find a friend, and his stay in prison wasn't too unpleasant.
But that's not necessarily how it is. In a movie based on a Stephen King novel a prisoner is subjected to rape numerous times, though he manages eventually to get revenge on everyone who misuses him. Apparently, that kind of thing happens too.
What are we to make of people condemning homosexuality? Probably some sincerely believe it's wrong, often because it's condemned in the Bible, not imagining that people might engage in such acts because that's their orientation, or that they might actually love each other. Maybe those condemning simply have never experienced that kind of desire. But if they're vehement about it, we might suspect something else is going on.
The Bible condemns eating pork and shellfish, and wearing clothes made of two different fabrics. I've heard pork condemned, by a Muslim friend, but never shellfish or clothes of more than one fabric. That suggests cherry-picking.
Of course sexuality is one of the most intimate and pleasurable things we can experience, so the experience can also be corrupted, or condemned for corruption even if unfairly. It's notable that ancient Greco-Roman culture was quite tolerant of sexuality in general, and perhaps homosexuality in particular. Alexander the Great was certainly bisexual, Julius Caesar had that reputation, Plato seems to have had little interest in women, etc. Why exactly did Jewish and Christian culture condemn homosexuality?
It seems that an anti-sexual movement began about the same time as Christianity (whether Christianity was responsible for it or not) which influenced the new religion. Camille Paglia suggested, in Sexual Personae, that it may have been a reaction to Roman emperors like Nero, who behaved pretty outrageously in homosexual ways, but by no means only in those ways. In the case of Judaism, it's been suggested that the ancient tradition reacted against some of the rites of the Great Mother religions, which featured homosexual behavior.
For many of us, the behavior seems strange, because unfamiliar. That in itself causes us to fear, but the word itself is negatively highly charged too. I noticed this when I found out my favorite high school teacher was gay, at a time when I was pretty unclear about sexuality in general. My assumption at the time was that most people's sexuality is what it is. I didn't feel much choice about MY orientation, so I thought it reasonable to assume most others didn't either. Obviously, that's not entirely true, but I don't think it's entirely untrue either.
When I used to listen to right-wing radio shows I used to hear the hosts say that homosexuality was a choice. I always wanted to ask them if they'd been tempted. G. Gordon Liddy I recall saying (in what sounded like a tone of wonder) that he had never indulged in homosexual acts while in prison. I never got the opportunity to ask him if he ever wanted to, but I wish I had. Would he have admitted to the temptation, or would he have denied it? I wonder.
A recent post on Facebook told of a woman who, some thirty years ago, decided to take care of people (usually gay men) dying of AIDS at a time when little was known about the disease and little research was being done on it. Many if not most of them had been abandoned by their parents, though often not by their lovers. She said she was deeply touched by the love shown by their partners.
That raises the question of just what constitutes marriage. Is marriage something that has been approved by the community, even though the two people involved no longer care about each other (or may never have)? Or does it have to do with the quality of feeling each person has for the other? I think it's pretty clearly understood by most that relationships are never unchanging unless they have died. As long as they live, they change. Thus, the quality of heterosexual relationships can be inferior to homosexual ones. It would be more convenient for many if heterosexuality was equivalent to virtue. Unfortunately for we heterosexuals, it is not.


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Airlines fight with distribution systems
Some airlines either shun the big GDS entirely or provide only limited participation. The war between airlines and third-party air ticket distributors will not end in the short term.
You can find Frontier's lowest fares on the airline's own website or on any of the big online travel agencies (OTAs) such as Expedia and Orbitz. But now, there's a difference: If you buy through any site other than Frontier's own Flyfrontier.com, you (1) earn only half of the usual frequent flyer miles, (2) can't get advance seat assignments, and (3) will face higher fees for various changes. Although no other airline has copied this particular deal, it's more than an isolated incident: Instead, it's another early skirmish in what looks to be an escalating war between airlines and third-party air ticket distributors. And it's not just an insider war, either; consumers stand the potential to lose some easy ability to compare fares from various lines.
As with most such wars, this one's all about the money. In addition to their own websites, most airlines sell tickets through one or more of the many OTAs. For the most part, the OTAs get their fare information and transact sales through the global distribution systems (GDS) — mainly those three big computerized systems (Amadeus, Sabre, and Travelport) that control most such distribution worldwide. Overall, these three systems account for well over half the total sale of domestic airline tickets, in addition to hotel accommodations, rental cars, and most other popular travel services, and virtually all of the sales through travel agencies and other third parties. Even though the GDS systems originated with individual airlines, they're now independent — and in a tug-of-war with their former founders.
The basic conflict is easy to state, Airlines have two objectives:
Read full story at: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-10/travel/sns-travel-ed-perkins-airlines-fight-with-distribution-systems-20121010_1_gds-first-airline-fare-packages


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Friday, August 05, 2011
Fill the Well Friday-- Revisit Your Goals
PHS editor Michelle Styles finds an unexpected way to revitalise her writing.
Why do you write? What is the goal of your writing? What is the ultimate prize for you -- fame, fortune, security for your family? Something else? When did you last think about it? Seriously. What are you going to do to achieve that goal?
It is very easy to get lost in getting the next book finished. Or completing the next manuscript in the multi-book contract. Or doing following the next idea. Without really stopping to consider - -where do I want to go in my career? Where is this taking me? What do I ultimately want to achieve? What is holding me back from making that commitment and finishing what I started? Am I looking at things as obstacles or steps up?
Reaffirming the reasons why I am writing in the first place and my long term goal has unleashed all sorts of creativity. Suddenly I *know* why I am doing it and it is not just because I am in the middle of a multi-book contract. One of the problems with multi-book contracts is that it can suddenly feel more like work and less like play. Creativity often does not thrive on mundane work but it does thrive on dreams and goals.
I have just finished Bob Mayer's Write It Forward. What he says resonated deeply with me and reminded me to take the joy. Mayer because of his recent background has an obvious biases towards indie/self-publishing/micro-publishing (he also writes guys with gear who go books rather than romance but hey, it is his platform) but don't let that put you off. What he says about goal setting, courage etc speaks to all authors, regardless of the chosen career path. For that reason, I do recommend anyone who feels like they are currently struggling with their writing career to read the book and grab the inspiration with both hands. As a download, it is not going to break the bank and is certainly cheaper than a bottle of wine.
The book is not about writing per say but about taking control of your career. And a big part of doing this is doing the research. How realistic are your goals? Do you understand the various pathways? Time commitments etc? he also gives practical exercises and guidance as often an author's biggest obstacle is herself and her habits.
One of the things Bob talks is about looking at other authors and their careers. See their career paths. Were they straight forward as often is portrayed in movies? Or not? A very good example is Sherrilyn Kenyon's keynote speech at the RWA Conference this year. Her journey to hugely successful publisher author was anything but straight forward. (Read it with a box of tissues handy) If you have heard Nora Roberts speak, you will know it took her 16 years before she hit number 1. Robyn Carr took 30 years to hit success with her Virgin River series. Brenda Novak in her interview in the August 2011 RWR describes what she went through (I already had a huge respect for Brenda and all she does with her auction. It increased tenfold) Many other long term successful authors can offer up similar stories. If you haven't spoken to successful authors or read about their career paths lately. Take the time. Revisit those stories. See what they did. How long it took them and why. Use them to inspire you.
So go ahead. Revisit those pie in the sky dreams and see why you held them. Dreams can change. But it is important to have a dream. What are your long term goals and how are you going to get there?
And thank you to Bob Mayer for writing such an inspirational book and allowing me to reconnect with my dreams (like any author I do have them). It is all about how determination, dedication, deiscipline, desire and persistence ( a common mantra of mine) pays so I felt as if he was on my wavelength.
Michelle Styles writes warm, witty and intimate historical romance in a wide variety of time periods. Her most recent release To Marry A Matchmaker was a July ll release in the UK and will be a October 11 release in Australia/New Zealand. Visit www.michellestyles.co.uk to learn more about her books.
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Each year, The Doors manage to treat their fans to a great cd release just in time for Christmas. This year is no exception, as in late November a deluxe 2cd and 4cd special collector's box set edition of the remixed landmark L.A. Woman album will become available. The two disc set will feature a remixed version of the last album recorded shortly before the death of lead singer Jim Morrison in Paris on disc one. Disc two features rare outtake versions of the albums songs as well as banter between the musicians and the recording engineers. The four disc set includes even more rare material than the 2 disc set and is intended to be sold mostly through The Doors own website.
Backing up the release of the deluxe L.A. WOMAN reissue is the recent release of the DVD, MR. MOJO RISIN': THE STORY OF L.A. WOMAN, which has been recently released. There is also the scheduled release of a computer app as well to provide even more background about the historic album's production in case some fan of the band just can;'t get enough.
Any true fan of the band should be satisfied here, don't you think?


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2013-2014 BCRF Projects:
1) The Roz and Les Goldstein Award
Co-Investigators: Moien Kanaan, PhD, Bethlehem University, Palestinian Authority and Ephrat Levy-Lahad, MD, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
The general aim of this project is to determine the genetic basis of inherited predisposition to breast cancer in the Palestinian Arab population, within the context of establishing the necessary infrastructure to provide cancer genetics services. While the incidence of breast cancer in Arab women is approximately one third that of Israeli Jews, it occurs more often in younger women, has poorer prognostic characteristics, and often clusters within extended families. This suggests that an inherited component is likely in many cases. In addition to the clinical implications of this project to these underserved women and their families, because this population has not been studied extensively, the researchers have already identified novel mutations in known genes, and expect to determine new inherited cancer genes which will be relevant to women of all ancestries world-wide.
This international research team originally aimed to assess the mutational spectrum, prevalence, and risk associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations among Palestinian and Arab-Israeli women. With the emergence of new sequencing technologies, they have expanded this goal to a global genomic analysis of the genetics of breast cancer in this population, including BRCA1 and BRCA2, as well as assessing the contribution of additional genes as they become known and aiming to identify novel breast cancer genes.
The researchers have enrolled over 1,700 Ashkenazi Jewish individuals (80% women) in a screening program for the three BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations common in this population. They identified 32 carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. Forty percent of these carriers did not have significant family history, and would not have been identified without a universal screening program. Only one-third of the carriers' first degree relatives have been tested so far. Although and another 17 carriers were identified among relatives of carriers, this low rate of relatives' referral underscores the fact that general screening may circumvent familial barriers to sharing genetic information among relatives.
About 60% of people offered testing decided to participate. Women were more interested in being tested than men, and younger women (<70 yrs) more than older women. Having children or daughters did not affect participation in screening, suggesting that women have genetic testing to promote their own health. To facilitate large-scale screening, participants were only given written material before being tested, rather than receiving full genetic counseling with a genetic counselor. At one week post testing and 6 months after receiving test results, over 90% of people were highly satisfied with having participated. Knowledge score was 7/10 at both time points, and only 1-2% reported stress related to testing. These results suggest that universal, large scale genetic screening to prevent breast and ovarian cancer is feasible without significantly compromising satisfaction, knowledge and test-related stress. However, the investigators will also compare this directly to traditional genetic counseling.
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In the Middle East, genetic analysis and medical follow-up services for breast and ovarian cancer risk among Jewish women are among the best in the world. But comparable services were not available women of other ancestries in the region. In 2007, BCRF sponsored the creation of the Middle East Breast Cancer Study (MEBCS), the goal of which is to provide genetic analysis and genetic counseling follow-up services, of the same excellent standard, to women of other ancestries in the region, and has sponsored the MEBCS continuously ever since. MEBCS is directed jointly by Ephrat Levy-Lahad, MD, of Shaare Zedek Hospital and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Moien Kanaan, PhD, of Bethlehem University, Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority; and Mary-Claire King, PhD, of the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. The MEBCS is a sister project of the New York Breast Cancer Study (NYBCS), directed by Dr. King, and the Israel Breast Cancer Study (IBCS), directed by Dr. Levy-Lahad, both of which are also sponsored by BCRF.
As of this year, the MEBCS has enrolled 799 breast cancer patients of Palestinian and Arab-Israeli origins. Thus far the researchers have carried out genomic analysis for 268 of these patients: 147 patients with family history of breast or ovarian cancer, in addition to their own breast cancer, and 121 patients diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at or before age 40. Genomic analysis of DNA of these patients, as for NYBCS and IBCS patients, comprises sequencing BRCA1 and BRCA2 and more than 30 other known and candidate breast cancer genes. Sequencing is performed using BROCA, the multi-gene targeting and next-generation sequencing approach developed, validated, published, and operationalized in the clinical setting by Dr. King's lab.
Of the familial and young-onset breast cancer patients, 12% had inherited a damaging mutation in BRCA1, BRCA2, or one of the other breast cancer genes. Eleven different genes carried mutations in patients from this population. Among breast cancer patients with family history of breast or ovarian cancer, 16% carried a damaging mutation in a breast cancer gene; among young-onset breast cancer patients, 7% carried such a mutation. About half of the mutations were in BRCA1 or BRCA2 and about half of the mutations were in other genes involved in repair of damaged DNA. The researchers are now screening these mutations in the total cohort of >800 patients in order to determine the frequency of each. They are also studying how each mutation affects the function of its gene. In the next months, they will also extend BROCA analysis to 70 additional patients from the MEBCS, 44 with familial breast cancer and 26 with young-onset breast cancer.
A striking observation of the study this year is how many patients from very severely affected MEBCS families have no clearly damaging mutation in any of the known breast cancer genes. The researchers speculate that breast cancer in these families is due either to mutations in as-yet-unidentified regulatory regions of known breast cancer genes that are far from the genes themselves (i.e. a long distance genomic trouble-maker effect), or to an as-yet-unknown gene. The observation fits ytheir hypothesis that breast cancer in the Palestinian population has many different genetic causes, and therefore that studying this population will enable discovery of new genes underlying breast cancer in women from all parts of the world
2) The New York Breast Cancer Study
Co-Investigator: Joan H. Marks, MS, New York Breast Cancer Study at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
The goal of the New York Breast Cancer Study (NYBCS) is to identify all genes responsible for inherited predisposition to breast cancer among women of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry and by extension among women of all ancestries. To discover these genes, these researchers use genomic sequencing to evaluate DNA from women who have developed breast cancer and from their relatives. In 2012-2013, they studied DNA from NYBCS participants who had no mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 but whose families were nonetheless severely affected with breast cancer.
Dr. King's team discovered that breast cancer in approximately one-fifth (21%) of these families could be explained by inherited mutations in other genes. This discovery suggests that in future, clinical testing for inherited predisposition to breast cancer should include other genes in addition to BRCA1 and BRCA2.
But what next? While it is obviously important and useful to learn the causes of breast cancer in a fifth of unresolved families, this group hopes to solve them all. The next step of the NYBCS will be to search, genome-wide, for mutations in regulatory regions that may influence proper timing and expression of critical genes.
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The goal of the New York Breast Cancer Study is to identify all genes responsible for inherited predisposition to breast cancer among women of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry and by extension among women of all ancestries. To discover these genes, Drs. King and Marks use genomic sequencing to evaluate DNA from women who have developed breast cancer and from their relatives. In fall 2013, they began a major genome-wide sequencing effort to identify mutations in regulatory regions that may influence timing and expression of genes critical to breast cancer. Thus far with this approach, the researchers have identified one class of mutation not previously detected in a breast cancer gene: mutation of a single DNA nucleotide deep inside a non-coding genomic region (an intron) that leads to appearance of a new coding region (an exon) in the wrong place. The new "impostor" coding region does not retain the reading frame of the normal gene, so introduces a premature truncation of the protein. The researchers expect multiple different, heretofore under-appreciated classes of mutations to be revealed by whole genome sequencing. Their hypothesis is that for mutation generally, and for mutations predisposing to breast cancer in particular, everything that can go wrong, will. They anticipate that each one of these events will be individually very rare, but that collectively they may not be rare. The practical importance of this phase of the NYBCS will be to reveal the range of mutations that can occur among women with breast cancer whose family history indicates that they likely have inherited predisposition to breast cancer, but who have normal sequences of all known breast cancer genes.
Mary-Claire King is American Cancer Society Research Professor of Genetics and Medicine at the University of Washington. Work in her lab focuses on genetic analysis of breast and ovarian cancer. Dr. King was the first to prove that breast cancer is inherited in some families. She is now studying BRCA1 and BRCA2 and searching for other breast and ovarian cancer genes. Her other medical research interests include genetic analysis of inherited deafness and systemic lupus erythematosus. Her lab is also interested in human genetic diversity and evolution, and in the application of DNA sequencing to human rights problems.
Dr. King received her BA in Mathematics from Carleton College, her PhD in Genetics from University of California at Berkeley, and her postdoctoral training at UC San Francisco. She has served on the National Commission on Breast Cancer of the President's Cancer Panel, the advisory board of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women's Health, the Council of the NIH Fogarty Center, the advisory board of the National Action Plan for Breast Cancer, the NIH Breast Cancer Program Review Group, the Board of Scientific Counselors of National Cancer Institute, the Board of Scientific Counselors of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the National Research Council committee to advise the Department of Defense on their Breast Cancer Research Program, and many NIH study sections. Abroad, she has served as Consultant to the Commission on the Disappearance of Persons of the Republic of Argentina and has carried out DNA identifications for the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal.
Dr. King has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, as a Fellow of the AAAS, to the Institute of Medicine (and its Council), to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,and as honorary chair for Washington state for the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations. She has received the Clowes Award for Basic Research from the American Association for Cancer Research, the Jill Rose Award from The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the Brinker Award from the Komen Foundation, a Woman of the Year Award from Glamour magazine, and honorary doctorates from Carleton, Smith, Bard, and Dartmouth Colleges. In 2012, Dr. King was elected as President of the American Society of Human Genetics and elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Dr. King has one daughter, Emily, who lives and works in Berkeley.


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SCIENCE has revealed much about the world and our position within it. Generally, the findings have been humbling. The Earth is not the centre of the universe. Our species descended from brutes. We are made of the same stuff as mud. We are moved by neurophysiological signals and subject to a variety of biological, psychological and sociological influences over which we have limited control and little understanding. One of our remaining sources of pride is technological progress. Like the polyps that over time create coral reefs, the many generations of humans that have come before us have built up a vast technological infrastructure. Our habitat is now largely one of human making. The fact of technological progress is also in a sense humbling. It suggests that the most advanced technology we have today is extremely limited and primitive compared with what our descendants will have. If we extrapolate these expected technological advances, and think through some of their logical implications, we arrive at another humbling conclusion: the "simulation argument", which has caused some stir since I published it three years ago. The formal version of the argument requires some probability theory, but the underlying idea can be grasped without mathematics. It starts with the assumption that future civilisa- tions will have enough computing power and programming skills to be able to create what I call "ancestor simulations". These would be detailed simulations of the simulators' predecessors – detailed enough for the simulated minds to be conscious and have the same kinds of experiences we have. Think of an ancestor simulation as a very realistic virtual reality environment, but one where the brains inhabiting the world are themselves part of the simulation. The simulation argument makes no assumption about how long it will take to develop this capacity. Some futurologists think it will happen within the next 50 years. But even if it takes10 million years, it makes no difference to the argument. Let me state what the conclusion of the argument is. The conclusion is that at least one of the following three propositions must be true: 1 Almost all civilisations at our level of development become extinct before becoming technologically mature. 2 The fraction of technologically mature civilisations that are interested in creating ancestor simulations is almost zero. 3 You are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. How do we reach this conclusion? Suppose first that the first proposition is false. Then a significant fraction of civilisations at our level of develop- ment eventually become technologi- cally mature. Suppose, too, that the second proposition is false. Then a significant fraction of these civilisa- do we live in a computer simulation?
tions run ancestor simulations.
Therefore, if both one and two are false, there will be simulated minds like ours. If we work out the numbers, we find that there would be vastly many more simulated minds than non- simulated minds. We assume that technologically mature civilisations would have access to enormous amounts of computing power. So enormous, in fact, that by devoting even a tiny fraction to ancestor simulations, they would be able to implement billions of simulations, each containing as many people as have ever existed. In other words, almost all minds like yours would be simulated. Therefore, by a very weak principle of indifference, you would have to assume that you are probably one of these simulated minds rather than one of the ones that are not simulated. Hence, if you think that propositions one and two are both false, you should accept the third. It is not coherent to reject all three. It should be emphasised that the simulation argument does not show that you are living in a simulation. The conclusion is simply that at least one of the three propositions is true. It does not tell us which one. In reality, we don't have much specific information to tell us which of the three propositions might be true. In this situation, it might be reasonable to distribute our credence roughly evenly between them. Let us consider the options in a little more detail. Proposition one is straightforward. For example, maybe there is some technology that every advanced civilisation eventually develops and which then destroys them. Let us hope this is not the case. Proposition two requires that there is a strong convergence among all advanced civilisations, such that almost none of them are interested in running ancestor simulations. One can imagine various reasons that may lead civilisations to make this choice.
Yet for proposition two to be true, virtually all civilisations would have to refrain. If this were true, it would be an interesting constraint on the future evolution of intelligent life. The third possibility is philosophi- cally the most intriguing. If it is correct, you are almost certainly living in a computer simulation that was created by some advanced civilisation. What Copernicus and Darwin and latter-day scientists have been discovering are the laws and workings of the simulated reality. These laws might or might not be identical to those operating at the more fundamental level of reality where the computer that is running our simulation exists (which, of course, may itself be a simulation). In a way, our place in the world would be even humbler than we thought. What kind of implications would this have? How should it change the way you live your life? Your first reaction might think that if three is true, then all bets are off and you would go crazy. To reason thus would be an error. Even if we are in a simulation, the best methods of predicting what will happen next are still the familiar ones – extrapolation of past trends, scientific modelling and common sense. To a first approxima- tion, if you thought you were in a simulation, you should get on with your life in much the same way as if you were convinced that you were leading a non-simulated life at the "bottom" level of reality. If we are in a simulation, could ever know for certain? If the simulators don't want us to find out, we probably never will. But if they choose to reveal themselves, they could certainly do so. Another event that would let us conclude with a high degree of confidence that we are in a simulation is if we ever reach a point when we are about to switch on our own ancestor simulations. That would be very strong evidence against the first two propositions, leaving us only with the third


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Not in the way we grow grapes and ferment wine in Napa valley, and not in the way we process cheese in Wisconsin, but in the way we treat our workers.
Conservatives have been well known for bad-mouthing our European ancestors — especially the French 1 — calling them "socialists" and whatever other insults they can think of to hurl at them 2. Although, "socialist" isn't even an insult, but a political terminology that's used as a scare tactic by the Republicans to invoke irrational fear — equating Socialism to Stalinism and genocide (playing on their base's ignorance).
But at the same time, the GOP has also been telling us how we should admire our job creators, that we should praise capitalism, and that we should trust and unequivocally believe in free markets. The Republicans believe that American workers should be overwhelmingly grateful and thankful for our job creators — that we should admire and respect them more.
The GOP also believes that we should tax them far less (maybe as a reward for offshoring so many jobs overseas), saying that this will grow our economy — and that if we can enable the CEOs to give themselves bigger paychecks (with more tax cuts and other loopholes in the tax code), this will somehow "trickle-down" to the rest of us — and that more "incentives" will also discourage them from sending more jobs to China, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Earlier this year in the New York Times, Paul Krugman noted in a post about France ("Cheese-eating Job Creators") that things are different now from the old days of "Eurotrashing" — and he points to an older study from the Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR) as one reason why this attitude is out-of-date: Old Europe Goes To Work: Rising Employment Rates in the European Union (It was written in 2006 by John Schmitt and Dean Baker):
"This report shows that Europe's welfare states have nearly closed the employment gap with respect to the United States for workers aged 25 to 54 years old."
Then Krugman presents a chart from the St. Louis Federal Reserve (below) and writes:
"Since the late 1990s we have completely traded places: Prime-age French adults are now much more likely than their US counterparts to have jobs. Strange how amid the incessant bad-mouthing of French performance this fact never gets mentioned." (* In April 2000 the labor force participation rate in the U.S. began its long decline, long before Baby Boomers began retiring, but not long after Bill Clinton made offshoring much easier for our esteemed job creators.)
Now fast forward 8 years later after that CEPR study. In a more recent post in August 2014 by Paul Krugman, "What's The Matter With France?" he writes:
"France has low labor force participation by the relatively old, thanks to generous retirement programs, and by the young, partly because generous aid means that few need to work while in school, partly perhaps because a high minimum wage and other factors discourage youth employment [France pays a minimum wage of $12.35 an hour]. What about prime-age workers?"
And again, he presents the same chart (above), and then continues:
"It's a good thing we know that France is the country in crisis, isn't it? Because otherwise you might get confused by employment performance that looks much better than ours ... What's going on here politically? Simon Wren-Lewis makes a very good point. In America, many of the people who shape economic discourse are forever living in the 1970s, when stagflation was the order of the day."
While France may or may not be more "exceptional" than America (although, our wines are getting much better), the French government certainly deserves a lot more respect for how they treat their workers — much more so than our own greedy job creators*. And during their Revolution, the French patriots certainly had a very unique way of dealing with their own oligarchs and plutocrats.
* Greed may only be natural human behavior, but it's our elected representatives in Congress who enables such behavior. If Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders is a "socialist", then maybe our country should be more like France. From VOX ➡ Bernie Sanders vs. the Billionaires: Why Vermont's Socialist Senator may run for President


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The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the Twenty-first Century by Anne Kingston
By page 133 I am enlightened. When I started the wedding planning process over a year ago, the web introduced me to the A Practical Wedding book and blog and the courageous writers who reassured me that I wasn't crazy as I experienced first-hand wedding night freak-out, the reality of family relationships and their place in a real life wedding, the ugly truth about budgeting and the grown-up "gimmies" induced by a serious industry...and how sometimes life really gets in the way of expectations.
What I didn't expect was regret. My lover and I had great discussions about what we wanted in the wedding, and what we didn't. But I found myself with a bad case of the what-ifs post-wedding. What if we had abstained from sex for a bit before the wedding...would we have had more explosive sexual chemistry during the honeymoon? What if I'd tried on my mother's wedding dress...just for that bride-in-white framed portrait for the wall? What if my husband and I had reserved a special slow song just for us...just to say we did?
Now for the record, sex with the now-husband was the only thing giving me the emotional reassurance that yes, this IS what I wanted in the crazy stressful week leading up to the wedding. The whole of the wedding was built around the idea of living a real wedding--our wedding--not just having pretty pictures of a knockoff picture-rific perfume advertisement featuring a bride and groom. And even though I regret not having danced with my husband (oh the horror!) at the actual wedding, the in-your-face of that is he isn't into dancing AT All and I hate being stared at...so it didn't seem like an "us" thing while we were planning the party.
Of all these regrets, those that loom the largest are the self-doubts. Maybe I cheated myself out of a whole experience by not having all the formula elements of a "classic" wedding, I mean- there was no white dress, no cake cutting, no first look, no slow dance, no "oh hey, it's YOU" first night/wedding night sex.
Turns out, the Wedding Industrial Complex (WIC) doesn't stop at selling us the planning elements of a picture-perfect wedding; it sells us the doubts about the legitimacy of the experience entwined with mock-virginal and domesticated housewife modes of behavior. Anne Kingston lights it up. These doubts that I've been feeling? The questions friends/family have asked about how come I can't "make" my partner do as he's told on (fill in the blank)_____(gaming habits, doctor visits, diet, cleaning). He's a grown-ass man but as his wife, I am now assumed to both crack the whip and organize the household.
Thank you, Anne. Instead of doubting the legitimate adult decisions my partner and I made in planning our real-life wedding, and instead of feeling like some sort of failure in the wifedom department, I feel like I've pulled the veil from my eyes and I am a modern, married woman: empowered.
Thank you, Anne. Instead of doubting the legitimate adult decisions my partner and I made in planning our real-life wedding, and instead of feeling like some sort of failure in the wifedom department, I feel like I've pulled the veil from my eyes and I am a modern, married woman: empowered.


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I pray that you all have a most blessed Easter weekend.
I will always be so grateful for the price that was paid for my sin
by my precious Saviour Jesus Christ.
I have the awesome honour to share a devotional weekly with ladies in a residential treatment program for addictions.
I've been making postcards of the devotional shared.
I wanted to share with you the postcard for this week's devotional.
I use postcard (4 per page)cardstock from staples that are pre-perforated from Staples.
I love the words to this song.
I printed this on the back of the postcard.
I remember when I first heard the words,
I was so touched by them, "why did they nail His feet and hands,
His love would have held Him there".
Jesus suffered first emotionally, then physically, mentally, and spiritually.
For me, for you.
There is nothing that you go through that Jesus does not understand.
He died and rose again to set you free.
I pray that you have a deeper revelation of the love of God for you
this Easter weekend.
Here is the song sung by Michael Card.
Be Blessed


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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Rodolphe Paninaro Diver Chrono Watch
From Luxist comes a look at the latest Rodolphe Paninaro Diver Chrono Watch. "new diver styled watch will be released from watch maker Rodolphe. The timepiece is nice, but notice that I mention diver "style" watch.
A true diver watch is water resistant to 300 meters, while you don't really want to submerge anything in water that is tested less than 100 meters water resistant. However the Paninaro Diver Chrono watch is only 50 meters water resistant.
So enough to watch your hands a bit more, but I'd rather Rodolphe have called it the 'Paninaro Wading Chrono.'" The white band is a solid look on this model.
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Last week, I talked about John McCain's four-day map, and what McCain would have to do in the closing days to win tomorrow. He hasn't closed the deal, to borrow a phrase. Here's the current pollster.com national vote graph:
Indeed, John McCain's numbers have inched up in the last week or two, but those must be coming from undecided voters, because Barack Obama's numbers are also inching up. Last week in that post, I offered to assume that the polls were off, and were oversampling Democrats and giving Obama 6 points that he didn't deserve. Let's assume that's still true; as long as the pollsters have stayed consistent in their methodology, the trend is clear and real even if the number is too high. And a 6-point swing toward McCain still has Obama up by 1.
But the national vote doesn't elect a president, state votes do, so once again, here's pollster.com's map from this morning:
The astute among you will note that this map is the same as the one from Thursday (except Arkansas slipped back to dark red), suggesting that McCain hasn't put any more states into play in the last surge of his campaign. Remember that his strategy is to win Pennsylvania, which, if we spot him 6 points, he won't do. (Zogby, the pollster that Republicans loved for 24 hours last week because his one-day tracking sample gave McCain a one-point lead on Friday, has a new PA poll out showing Obama up by 14.)
But this post is supposed to be about Obama's map. Since we spotted McCain 6 points, Obama ends up losing all of the yellow states, including places where he's been polling consistently (if not highly) ahead like Florida. The easiest thing for Obama to do, with no yellow states turning blue, is hold every dark blue state and win one of the light blue ones (Nevada would mean a 269-269 tie, resolved undoubtedly in Obama's favor by the House of Representatives). Obama is ahead in three of those four states by more than the 6-point handicap we offered McCain; the most likely pick-ups are, in order, CO, NV, VA, and OH. The last two are the bigger electoral prizes, and if McCain were to somehow win Pennsylvania, Obama has to win one of those two states. If Obama holds PA, it's over likely to be all over. If Obama holds PA and wins VA or OH, then McCain is really toast. Which is why in my answers to the contest (enter here!) I predicted the AP would be calling this race very early in the evening. If Obama wins these crucial Eastern time zone states, it will be an early, early night.
After two presidential election nights in a row of barely any sleep, tomorrow night will be a refreshing change.
(For a similar kind of post, see Nate Silver at 538.)