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You soon won't be able to subscribe to Sky Sports 1 or 2 on their own via Virgin Media.
Starting next month, the cable company is scrapping the option of adding either channel to a Virgin TV package. Instead, you'll have to sign up to a bundle of channels including Sky Sports 1 and 2.
That means instead of paying £21.50 a month extra for Sky Sports 1 or 2, you'll have to opt for the Sky Sports Collection. This gets you all seven Sky Sports channels, and as of next month, will set you back £31.75 a month.
Though if you sign up to the Big Kahuna Bundle, you can add the Sky Sports Collection for £19 a month for the first 12 months and £30.50 a month after that. The Big Kahuna Bundle gives you up to 200Mbps broadband, 230 digital TV channels and unlimited weekend landline calls. It costs £42 a month for the first year and £55 a month for the last six months, plus line rental of £17.99 a month or £184 for 12 months upfront.
Sky customers aren't immune to the price rise. As of June 1st, they'll be charged up to £2.50 more a month for their sports bundles.
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text: Anne Klimek loves to sail. She and husband Tom keep their sailboat at South Haven, Mich., and enjoy cruising the Great Lakes. For her, sailing means reading. One book they consider valuable for their sailing explorations is "Exploring North Manitou, South Manitou, High and Garden Islands of the Lake Michigan Archipelago" by Robert H. Ruchoft. They also rely on charts and publications from the Great Lakes Cruising Club in Chicago. A South Bend resident since 1963, Anne describes herself as a homemaker, retired editor and writer. Anne's mother, Helen Payne, was born in South Bend and married Notre Dame Law School graduate Bernard Foley. The Foleys moved to Crawfordsville, Ind., where Bernard practiced law with his father and where Anne was born. Anne graduated with an English major from Saint Mary's College. One of her most influential teachers was Sister Miriam Joseph Rauh, a highly regarded Shakespeare scholar. Rauh also wrote the book on grammar, logic and rhetoric called "The Trivium," which caused many a Saint Mary's student a good deal of hard thinking. Anne and Tom moved to South Bend in 1963 and their children, Mary Patricia and James, were raised here. "Reading to the children at bedtime was a ritual," Anne said. "I think my husband could read 'The Cat in the Hat' by Dr. Seuss backwards." James now is a lawyer in Indianapolis. Mary Patricia, husband David and sons Henry and Michael live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Anne is a devoted reader whose most unforgettable book is "Kristin Lavransdatter" by Sigrid Undset. "It is such a memorable book for me: a vivid chronicle of the life of a remarkable woman in 14th-century Norway," she said. As a child, Anne loved the poems and quaint illustrations in "My Poetry Book: An Anthology of Modern Verse for Boys and Girls" by Grace Thompson Huffard, Laura Mae Carlisle, Helen Ferris, Willy Pogany and Marguerite De Angeli. Anne began reading herself in kindergarten or first grade, "and the discovery that I couldn't see the blackboard and needed glasses expedited the learning process." Favorites of hers included the Oz books by L. Frank Baum and Janet Lambert's books for teens "Welcome Home, Mrs. Jordon," "Rainbow After Rain" and "Star Spangled Summer." "For entertaining reading, a good mystery is hard to beat," Anne said. She just finished "The Conjurer's Bird: A Novel" by Martin Davies. "It is a handsomely executed book and is reminiscent of the book 'Possession: A Romance' by A. S. Byatt," she said. Scenes in "Conjurer's Bird" switch between the 18th and 21st centuries. The 18th-century historical figure Sir Joseph Banks, a renowned naturalist and president of the Royal Academy, is at the center of the story, but there are several subplots. In addition to being a naturalist, Banks was believed to be a leading figure in the English intelligence service -- read spy. Tom Klimek joined the conversation by saying, "This is a wonderful book with its interweaving of semi-fiction with fiction, and some pure guesswork interspersed with historical information. "I always did know the facts in the story from the fiction. It is not intended to lead you astray, especially as the author gives his sources." Anne loves the medieval mysteries of Ellis Peters, the pen name for the late historian Edith Pargeter. Peters wrote the Brother Cadfael series. "Her history is accurate, and she understands and re-creates the society of 12th-century England and Wales," Anne said.

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In today's technology savvy world every business needs to grow taking help of it. Internet is never ending means to pass message or promotion of your business. It is necessary to have an interactive website that will help you grow globally. The question arises howto design professionally looking corporate website? Today outsourcing projects of website design and development has taken up their heads. One must do deep research before outsourcing, non technical people mostly small businessmen things that once their websites are live in the air.
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Before some years people usually use to develop the website on either on .net, aspx, core php or other website development platform. But today simple and user friendly platforms are available like CMS today popular CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal are widely preferred by users as they are easily understandable and can be used in best way.
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terça-feira, 7 de junho de 2011
Accionamientos, Control, Electrónica de Potencia
Dr. Roberto Cárdenas Dobson
Ingeniero Civil Electricista, Msc., Ph.D.
Profesor Titular DIE USACH
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Researcher in power electronic and drives
Ph.D and Msc. in electronic engineering from the University of Nottingham, 1992 and 1996. Best paper award from the industrial electronic society in 2004. Best paper award from the Chilean institute of engineers.
Full professor at the University of Magallanes until 2009, full professor at the University of Santiago de Chile, 2009-2011, currently applying to the University of Chile. Vice-president of the Chilean Chapter of the IEEE Industrial Electronic Society. Member of the renewable energy committee, Industrial Electronic Society.
SpecialtiesPower electronic and control of electrical machine. Renewable energy systems
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It has been a bad start to the new year for those who are concerned that action needs to be taken now to forestall the impact of climate change in the future. The `warmists`` – those who are convinced that the science of "closed", that the action plan has to be massive reductions in CO2 emissions globally coupled with a strong push for green energy - are in retreat.
First, Climategate –the affair of the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia – refuses to die down. The emails are being used in a law suit against the Environmental Protection Agency to try and prevent it from enacting regulations to control CO2 emissions. As more and more people work through the emails, more and more issues are brought to the surface. Al Gore's protestations about them as being "irrelevant to the real issue" is no longer heard, as many now see other issues with the data and the quality of the science.
Second, the implications of the debacle at Copenhagen rumble on. The UN is sidelined in follow-up discussions as the US, China and India seek to cut a deal before the G20 meeting in Canada this coming summer, ignoring the position taken by the EU and the UN as well as the developing world. The "major polluters" want control of their fate. This is not what others had in mind.
Third, the US is backing off commitments made at Copenhagen to work to find $100 billion to support developing world's climate change adjustment. Secretary of State Clinton is suggesting that little of this $100 billion will be ``new` money and the developing nations are crying `foul``.
Fourth, the Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been accused of a major conflict of interest with his business dealings in green technology companies benefiting from the position the UN takes on climate change and the need for clean energy. While Dr Rajendra Pachauri is not paid for his UN work (other than travelling expenses), he is increasingly using his position to advocate policies which directly benefit companies he is a director of. The IPCC summarises the science of climate change, its impacts, and possible countermeasures. It enables politicians to make informed decisions. The IPCC is not permitted to recommend any course of action. Dr Pachauri, a railyway engineer, denies the conflict but the evidence is mounting that it is real. The fact that Al Gore, Chairman of an investment company that directly benefits from climate change, gets away with similar duplicity does not make the conflict of interest any less serious.
Fifth, and its only early in the new year, the UN IPCC is backtracking on a major claim. In its fourth assessment released in 2007, the IPCC claimed that the Himalayas could be ice-free by 2035 due to global warming. This has been used by many as an example of why action is needed urgently, as has the `sinking of the Maldives`. The ice free by 2035 claim is not supported, in turns out, by any peer reviewed science and most scientists who have studied the glaciers in the region completely disassociate themselves from this claim. Yet the IPCC defends it.
The claim is based on a comment made in a newspaper. Yet whenever the IPCC is under attack, the defence is always that everything it reports is based on peer reviewed science. Clearly not the case. It is the case, however, that author of this comment is a colleague of Dr Pachauri and they have together sought to raise significant funding on the basis of this claim.
Yesterday, however, Dr Pachauri began to distance himself from his own past statements. In an email to Reuters he said "We are looking into the issue of the Himalayan glaciers, and will take a position on it in the next two or three days." `This follows the release of a major study by the Indian Government suggesting that they could find no link between global warming, CO2 emissions and the state of the glaciers in the Himalayas. A messy situations – one that connects the conflict of interest issues with the quality of science issues raised by Climategate.
Finally, in President Obama's agenda in the period between now and the mid-term elections in November, climate change and energy security (these two policies are inextricably linked) is being pushed further away from the floor of the Senate. While the Environmental Protection Agency is pushing ahead with its regulation of CO2, the cap and trade legislation and other components of the climate change bill are so far from everyone's mind as to be almost forgotten. The debacle at Copenhagen was a taste of what is to come in the Senate.
This time last year, the `warmist` were riding here, predicting great success at Copenhagen and refusing to debate the `science``, which they claimed was settled. It clearly is not and now there is a vacuum in terms of policy and action plans. Many campaigners believe that progress is being made, but the evidence to support this view is hard to find. It will be interesting to watch what happens next in the global fight against climate change.


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Though the people are friendly and the product is good. Some of the employees need to learn the correct way to slice the bread. i.e. don't lift the knife while cutting, this does not lead to a uniform cut,, don't start the cut on top of the bread and lifting at the end. If the bread is not sliced correctly this leaves a strong negative to an otherwise joyful dining experience. Training is...
Always clean!! I love to walk into Subway because you immediately smell the different variety of breads, and sometimes you can smell fresh baked cookies...MMMMMM!!! I've never had a bad experience at Subway. Good food and nice staff. Go to Subway!!!!
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Subway In Warrior is located at 290 Cane Creek Rd in Warrior and has been in the business of Retail - Sandwiches And Submarines Shop since 2006.


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Sunday, February 25, 2007
Gearing Up!
I can hardly contain myself. March is on the horizon and I'm so excited. How can you possibly control your emotions knowing that your face is going to be dedicated to the mustache for a month? It's tough, but I'm trying.
Just to continue to inspire, attached is a picture of some of my friends in Thailand, taking the mustache international... What am I saying? It's already international... it's the mustache for crying out loud. Nothing communicates better cross-culturally than a sweet stache.... It's true
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My question is about masturbation as i find is my weakest link, specially regarding the argument that masturbating thinking in women or with images of women is degrading to them by converting them into a sex object. Argument to which i hypocritically agree. My questions are, is this argument reasonable? are there other ways to approach that action? Is there a proper rebuttal besides the slippery-slope of "If it is not with woman, guys will start looking for pictures of animals or ..."?
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Haven't read all the posts but... at a moralistic/objectifiction of women standpoint, that's just inherited prudery and conditioning and complete bollocks. We are hard-wired to respond so and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
However, if you are feeling the need to wank a lot, it is because your body is more heated than it should be.
If you ate simpler foods, less meat, less alcohol or drugs, did good physical exercise, you would definitely feel less need to wank. Wanking is a physichosis (is that even a word? the physical version of a psychosis) that is more a symptom than much else.
I have had extensive yoga training and I know this first hand. Sirsana or headstand will allow the prana (life force) to flow from your dick to your third eye, and so on. Sounds daft but I assure you, it is true.
Women masturbate too! O: Shocking. LOL jk. But I don't see where anyone gets the idea that masturbating to someone turns them into a sex object?? You think about their personalities too, which makes you think about how they would react to certain sexual situations, which can be arousing. If anything masturbating to someone is a form of flattery
I don't care if someone masturbates to children, chickens, horses, or murder. As long as they have a filter on their behavior I don't think they need a filter on their thoughts. I'm hetero, but now and again I'll see some gay porn that's a turn on. I don't spend a lot of time worrying that I might be gay. And if I were, so the f*** what?
My experience as a photographer working with a lot of females, is that girls are either naturally or socially more open to considering other females as potential partners for a little sexual fooling around. We all know that girls in their early teens practice quite a bit on each other, testing their kissing skills, for example. If boys are doing that, you can be fairly sure (not certain, of course) that they are in the 10%.
Does masturbating to these girls mean you are going to go out and randomly try to hump women without their permission? Are you going to stop seeing women as complex human beings who also happen to be fun to have sex with? Guessing the answers are no and no. Sexual deviations requiring serious therapy and/or prison tend to have roots in much more complicated things than simple masturbation to pretty women in magazines. As a woman, I'd prefer to have the right to choose whether or not to pose in a magazine and to also choose how I feel about it.
The old school feminists used to see a relationship between porn and rape. The linguistic tool they used was the concept of so-called "objectification." However, as any woman in a sexual relationship with a man knows, after a male has an orgasm he has an annoying tendency to want to sleep. I think this might be one reason why this concept of woman-as-object came up. "Oh, he just wants to use me for sex, like I'm a human kleenex."
Arriana Huffington once quipped, "Men go to sleep (after sex) because women don't turn into pizza," but it is a lot more complicated than that. Biological science now tells is that ...during ejaculation, men release a cocktail of brain chemicals, including norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin, vasopressin, nitric oxide (NO), and the hormone prolactin. The release of prolactin is linked to the feeling of sexual satisfaction, and it also mediates the "recovery time" that men are well aware of—the time a guy must wait before "giving it another go." Studies have also shown that men deficient in prolactin have faster recovery times. (source)
I love the fact that biology doesn't care about feminism or human's petty, imposed, wishful needs. It just is.
That's the reason arms are exactly this long now.
AND why the dinosaurs went extinct- No meteor or climate change- sheer frustration. That poor T-Rex and his itty-bitty arms- lol
Slippery-slope? One of my least favorite phrases of all time.
Pics of animals? Watch any animal show on TV (Nat Geo. Animal Planet etc...) and you can see animal porn, insect porn, bird porn. Well, it's just called nature/natural with those species. Fascinating as it is, especially in the light of evolution. It's not a turn-on in any way to humans- or it would be on Pay-Per-View.
It's only porn if it's pics/vids of humans.
Sex is better than masturbation- but not as "handy".
I honestly see no issue with a man masturbating to either visual or mental images of women. If he's heterosexual, that's what arouses him. It's natural. Why should there be a problem with that?
What of women who masturbate to mental or visual images of men? Are they, then, making sexual objects of the men they're thinking about or looking at? Is that any less right or wrong?
Don't worry about it. It really isn't hurting anyone. It's a natural thing to do, and thinking of whatever one thinks about while masturbating is just what they prefer to think about.
Some old school feminists wanted to relate that sort of "objectification" to rape, but really, once a guy has an orgasm, he will probably want to take a nap, not rape anyone. I worry about the guys who can't masturbate because their religion tells them masturbation is a sin and that the only outlet for their feelings is to plant seed in a woman.


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I was feeling a little gold crazy the other day and this is what ended up coming together quite effortlessly. This perfectly asymmetrical knit with gold sequin elbow patches was a recent score from the LF Sale in La Jolla, and it also just happens to fall beautifully off the shoulder. I paired it with an oversized gold clutch, and if you look closely, even the shoes have gold studs along the top of the platform. I topped it all off with gold polish on my fingers. Voila!
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noun. A deity who sucks several things: 1. Ass. 2. Monkey balls. 3. The life out of the party.
Real citation: "If I were in your pants, I'd run in the other direction. People who follow this kind of punitive, non-fun-haver god are problematic in a host of ways. These are the homemade-cross-toting lunatics who were shrieking outside Terry Schiavo's hospice room. You'll find them disrupting school-board meetings with long screeds about how wrongheaded those newfangled proponents of evolution are because everyone knows god made Adam and Eve (not Adam and Steve), and that's how civilization began, damn it (only they wouldn't swear). These Holy Rollers are that most curious (and hypocritical) mix of antichoice, but pro–death penalty. Plus, have you ever actually listened to Christian rock? Yikes."
(Judy McGuire, "Born Again Virgin," Seattle Weekly, seattleweekly.com/features/0514/050406_diversions_dategirl.php)
Made-up citation: "A non-fun-haver god is a lot easier to take as part of a pantheon of gods. Then our diverse spiritual needs can be met by the crack-smoker god, the Peking-duck-gobbler-god, and the blow-milk-out-your-goddamn-nose god."


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As an Everton fan, you would expect me to be supporting Liverpool fans, but I was so incensed this morning to hear about the dreadful way in which UEFA handles the ticketing for the Champions League final that I felt compelled to write about it.
On the radio this morning the press officer for UEFA called William Gaillard refused to admit that UEFA had any responsibility for the problems occurring an squarely blamed Liverpool fans. However, anyone with any knowledge of what UEFA did and what they allowed to happen can see what the true story is.
Firstly, UEFA blame Liverpool fans for turning up without tickets. The questions is why did they turn up ? The reason for this was because both Liverpool and AC Milan were offered only just over half the tickets, some 34,000 out of a 63,000 capacity. by doing this and allowing 29,000 tickets to be available to fans of other clubs and ultimately be sold on the black market by touts, UEFA created a reason for fans to go over to Greece without tickets.
The second obvious floor in UEFA's argument was the choice of stadium. The olympic stadium in Athens has no turnstiles and no way of really controlling who can and cannot get in to it. the police set up a taped of cordon with "Police Incident" tape and barriers suitable for pavements, not protecting a major sporting event. given this, was it any surprise that people could get over the fence ?
What were the police doing ? Why did fans get in to the ground when never having to display their tickets or simply hold them above their heads ? If UEFA knew touts were operating, as indeed they did know because they warned fans about them, why did the police not check all tickets ?
Finally, I heard a UK policeman last night on Five Live saying that the Greek police did not have any UV lights to check if tickets were actually valid (under ultra violet the tickets show a mark) and he said that people who had bought real tickets had nothing to worry about. Given that that is the case, how come hundreds of Liverpool fans with valid tickets were excluded from entering ?
Put simply, blaming genuine fans with real tickets because UEFA were incompetent in managing fans properly is a bloody poor way for UEFA to respond and they should be ashamed of themselves.


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This second post on Lisbon consists of more of the amazing color that inspired me. From the town of Belem with its Modern Art Museum and Imposing Monastery, to the streets of Chiado, Alfama and Barrio Alto, it seemed that everywhere I looked there was a burst of color that some other cities in Europe don't seem to contain. The first photo is of the Mosterio dos Jeronimos in Belem, just outside Lisbon.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Lisbon In Color, Post 1
Ok so this will be a multi part mega post. I took so many photos from Lisbon due to the combination of being totally inspired by my new Nikon D90, and the beauty of the city, its people, architechure and geography. I spent 5 days walking up and down the endless hills and wanting to steal all the beautiful tiles that I saw. Many of the buildings here are adorned with handmade tiles and I was really inspired by the the amazing colors they contained and so I took more color photos than usual because I wanted to show the city in the same vibrant way. This first photgraph is looking down from the top of Calçada de Santana toward Rossio.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
Some shots from Floyd Bennett Field that I took today. It seems to have gone from New York City's first Municipal Airport to a semi unkempt yet interesting part of the National Park Service. From a rec center to a community garden, people seem to have made the most of it. The defunct hangars were crazy spooky and frighteningly accessible.
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Taking Time for Safety: The Train Collisions that Led to a Safer Way of Life
Let's back up a minute. At 2:21 into the clip, the narrator says the following statement:
"That's Patsy Turner...was the one on the left. She's one of the ones that was killed in that bus accident."
The bus accident she's referring to involves a Rock Island train and a Renwick school bus, and it happened just 5 months after this film was taken. Many of the older high school students in this film were victims of the crash, related to someone who was, or perished themselves that fateful day.
|A clipping from The Daily Iowan, October 23rd, 1937 Photo Credit: The Daily Iowan
Since the industrial revolution, fatal accidents involving man and machine have been commonplace. Think of it as one of the acceptable tradeoffs for being able to complete a task more quickly with machines than with human power alone. Newspapers would report the gristly details of a rural car wreck, or townspeople would gather at an urban factory where a worker was gravely injured. Its what we did, and in today's 24 hour news cycle...we still do. Ever slow down to pass a car wreck on the highway? Sure you have. Humans always gravitate towards tragedy.
The 1937 Rock Island Rocket collision between a school bus and a streamlined diesel passenger train at a railroad crossing in Mason City, Iowa was different. The awful circumstances in that crash marked a turning point in the burgeoning diesel passenger locomotive era, and set into motion new safety rules that we follow today. This week we look back on that horrible October day in 1937, study the accident, and learn what positive developments took place shortly thereafter.
Silver Streaks
|A sketch from the US Patent Office application for the Budd Company's streamlined diesel locomotive. Photo Credit: US Patent Office
Just three years prior to the Mason City incident, the sun began to set on the steam locomotive era thanks to the highly-publicized debut of streamliners such as the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Pioneer Zeyphyr. Named after Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind, the stainless steel beauty broke barriers in 1934 with innovative new spot welding patents and stainless steel construction methods. Propelling the machine was a Winton diesel V-8 engine which developed 600 horsepower and turned electric traction motors which generated the torque needed to move the train. In May, 1934, a "dusk to dawn" publicity run from Denver to Chicago's Century of Progress Fair would help usher in the next generation of passenger rail service. This would be a shot in the arm for railroads weathering the Great Depression. The new train made the trip in just 13 hours, 5 minutes while running an average speed of 79.5 miles per hour. During one leg of the blistering journey, the Zephyr's engineer, Jack Ford, was able to push the streamliner to a wicked 112.5 miles per hour. The land speed record in 1934 was 130.6 miles per hour. All of this at a time when the average car would struggle to reach 55 miles per hour and urban dairy delivery routes were still carried out by horse and buggy.
|A Burlington Route commemorating the Pioneer Zeyphr of 1934.
Photo Courtesy of William Eric McFadden
Something that new diesel trains didn't do compared to their steam engine predecessors was emit large plumes of coal soot into the air. There was still a fair amount of exhaust but they didn't leave a large trail like the old steamers, and as a result, motorists at crossings couldn't see the oncoming trail of smoke in the distance...an early warning that a speeding train would soon pass by.
The Rocket Blasts Off
|The highly stylized 1937 Texas Rocket looks like its speeding, even while standing still. Photo Credit: Wikipedia
The Texas Rocket ran from Fort Worth to Houston, Texas.
The Rocky Mountain Rocket ran from Kansas City, Missouri to Denver, Colorado.
The Peoria Rocket ran from Chicago to Peoria, Illinois.
The Des Moines Rocket ran from Chicago, Illinois to Des Moines, Iowa.
The Kansas City Rocket ran 2 trains that ran from Minneapolis to Kansas City, Missouri.
Once put into service, the Rockets quickly became known as the "speedsters of the rails", praised by passengers for their amenities such as wide seats, comfortable ride and cocktail bars. The Budd-built articulated cars had ample room for roughly 120 passengers. While the fields of golden wheat and sweet corn passed by outside their windows, Rocket passengers were treated to breakfast offerings, complimentary stationary and all the comforts of home. Hauling all of this luxury was a 1,200 horsepower EMC V-16 diesel engine...twice the cylinders and twice the horsepower as the Pioneer Zephyr. As the name implied, the Rocket trains were quick and with enough success, could help put Rock Island on the road to financial recovery.
The Mason City Accident
On the morning of Friday, October 22nd, a group of 28 high school students and three teachers from Renwick High School hopped into a school bus and headed to the Cerro Gordo county seat of Mason City. Home to numerous industrial sites, Mason City was largely a manufacturing town in the early 20th century thanks to its limestone deposits and desirable rail access. Portland cement and ceramics companies were the largest employers in the region and the Renwick High School commercial class teachers wanted their pupils to experience potential employers first-hand. Companies such as Mason City Brick and Tile Company, which claimed to be one of the city's oldest businesses. The company started in 1866, thanks to its close proximity to the Mason City and Fort Dodge rail lines. As demand for paved roads and infrastructure grew, companies in Mason City provided cement, ceramic drainage pipe and precast concrete steps for city job sites across America.
|Mason City Brick and Tile Company in the early 1900's. Students were leaving this factory when the accident occured. Photo Credit: Samuel Calvin / University of Iowa
|A scene from the Rock Island Rocket crash of 1937
Photo Credit: The Olewein Daily Register / IA GenWeb
And we think today's media is sensational.
The Kansas City Rocket was delayed 1 hour and 15 minutes before the engineer was told to press onward to Minneapolis and complete the journey. He was replaced by a new engineer and crew in a nearby Manly, Iowa switchyard and the trip was completed that night. None of the train passengers were hurt in the incident.
The Aftermath
Immediately, investigators from The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific descended on Mason City to investigate the crash. One of the first to respond was the Rock Island Superintendent from Des Moines, Mr. C.L. Bakke. Mr. C.J. Brown, the manager from Kansas City also arrived at the scene later that evening and the initial investigation concluded that the Rocket was indeed traveling at a low speed, 20 to 25 miles per hour through Mason City at the time of the crash...a reasonable speed. The engineer of the Rocket, George R. Simpson, was badly shaken by the incident and said he was unable to see the bus due to large stack of freshly-made bricks that lined the sides of the rails. This also obstructed the view for the bus driver, and contributed to the collision. This detail suggested poor thinking on the part of Mason City Brick & Tile Company. Because the crash occurred on private property, no additional warning measures were mandated at the grade crossing where the fatal wreck occurred. This accident was simply a case of happenstance. A series of unfortunate events that combined to equal the worst possible scenario.
The Flying Ute Crash of 1938
Just one year after The Kansas City Rocket crash in Mason City, another deadly train / school bus collision in Sandy, Utah occurred. A bus carrying 39 students was demolished by a Denver Rio Grande & Western freight train named The Flying Ute in a blinding December snowstorm. Utah buses were required to stop at railroad crossings, but not to open the doors to see or hear if a train was approaching. The two drivers were unable to see one another due to blinding snowstorm.While making up time lost by the blizzard, The Flying Ute slammed into the bus as it crossed a grade crossing.
|Newspaper headline from the Flying Ute crash. Photo Credit: Ludington Daily News
In all, 26 perished in the crash, marking the worst school bus accident in U.S. history. This incident, along with the fresh memory of the Mason City crash, led to the federal mandate for school buses to stop at all railroad crossings and open the door to make sure a train was not approaching. This case is often cited as the reason for increased school bus safety and awareness in the United States, as well as section 392, subpart B of Federal Commercial Motor Vehicle code.
"The driver of a commercial motor vehicle specified in paragraphs (a) (1) through (6) of this section shall not cross a railroad track or tracks at grade unless he/she first: Stops the commercial motor vehicle within 50 feet of, and not closer than 15 feet to, the tracks; thereafter listens and looks in each direction along the tracks for an approaching train; and ascertains that no train is approaching. When it is safe to do so, the driver may drive the commercial motor vehicle across the tracks in a gear that permits the commercial motor vehicle to complete the crossing without a change of gears. The driver must not shift gears while crossing the tracks."
Making it Right
|The updated TA locomotive circa 1941 with the secondary "gyralite" warning lamp installed.
US Patent 2,353,082 for a gyrating warning lamp:
"To the railroads, not only is it a question of physical damage or personal injury, but a financial burden as well. An animal not worth a great deal to an owner suddenly becomes invaluable when it is struck by a train."
In an effort to protect railroad companies from litigious farmers, (or crash victim's families), a gyrating safety lamp on new EMC trains would help make trains safer. Trains use a similar method of warning lamps today.
Grade crossings were made safer in the 1950's across the US thanks to the research carried out by The Southern Pacific Railroad and Stanford University, which led to the development of the automatic grade crossing signals that we still use. The approaching trains close electrical relays that engage the audible signals and flashing lights. Trains as far away as several thousand feet can trigger the signals, giving motorists and pedestrians ample time to stop.
Renwick Moves On
The people of Renwick were able to recover from the deadly Rocket accident of 1937. Families buried their loved ones and healed in their own private ways. Survivors healed their physical and emotional wounds as well. Children grew up, played baseball, sang in the choir at church and got jobs as young adults.
|The 1937 Chevrolet school bus that replaced the one destroyed in the Mason City crash. Photo Credit: Robert McGowan Family / YouTube
|The 1937 Chevrolet bus shown in a 1940 Renwick Homecoming Parade. Photo Credit: Robert McGowan Family / YouTube
|Corwin Peer, seen waving to the camera in May, 1937. Photo Credit: Robert McGowan Family / YouTube
In all the press coverage of the incident, one common thread woven throughout is the amazement of the "new streamliners". It wasn't called a killer machine, but a beautiful beast that stirred the imagination and wonder of onlookers, even as it took the lives of their neighbors and children. I can't imagine what it would have been like to catch the first glimpse of a groundbreaking invention such as that...in that awful setting.
The laws that are on the books today are there for a reason. There are names and faces that go along with the rules we follow, and perhaps even question or poke fun at. I wouldn't have understood the significance of such a historic event as the Mason City crash or subsequent Flying Ute crash that forced lawmakers and engineers to rethink our way of life. Thankfully I get it today, and I would imagine if stories like this were highlighted more, today's youth would recognize why the bus driver asks everyone to be quiet and wait for a few seconds before crossing a set of railroad tracks.
In the grand scheme of things, isn't safety worth the wait?
*Perhaps the most complete newspaper story on the accident is available in this archive copy of The Daily Iowan from October 23, 1937.
*You can also obtain a great deal of knowledge from the reports compiled on The IA GenWeb page about the crash.
*Details on the history of Electromotive Corporation and Rock Island Rockets came from their Wikipedia pages, personal document collections over the years, and Streamliner Memories.
*A touching news article on the Flying Ute crash of 1938 can be found at the Desert News website.


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Wow! It was really hard to find ten of my favorite blogs who have not already received the Top Ten Award. Here are ten who haven't received it yet, (I don't think!):
Sunday, September 4, 2011
My Top Ten
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Saturday, 26 November 2011
Power Posting
They got the power! - George W Bush and Tony Blair shake hands at a White House press conference. Photo by Paul Morse, for the US Government, via Wikimedia Commons - public domain.
I'm in a triadic mood, and have three thoughts about power:
1) The will to do or make something which will require a lot of power, is a sign of virtue and quality - specifically, the virtue of magnificence. Aquinas's idea that this is ultimately an aspect of fortitude or courage is looking good to me at first blush.
2) The will to make oneself fit to wield a lot of power should one need to, is the sign of a more careful and scrupulous virtue - which feels, to me, like a sort of magnanimity. But it is magnanimity played in a careful and questioning mode, if so, and seems to me intimately linked to fortitude's three companion cardinal virtues - prudence, temperance, and justice.
3) The will to power for itself, as against these, seems to me a psychic form of self-gratification - pleasant and harmless enough in moderation and in private, but neither attractive nor civil to exhibit in public, and depressingly narcissistic and sterile if considered as a vocation.
So magnificence seeks power as a tool to do great things, by which I mean some particular great things which it has the heart and mind to imagine; magnanimity cultivates the skills to wield one's power greatly, by which I mean gracefully instead of grossly; and mere ambition is satisfied with just being a great big power tool. That sounds about right.
What does this say about people who are 'passionate' about attaining the highest levels of power, so that they can deliver 'strong leadership' towards - 'whatever works'?
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- Anonymous27 November 2011 at 19:51
Coming out in 1876, the Colt 45 caliber was dubbed 'the peacemaker'. It held six metallic cartridges and could be quickly reloaded, making it a fearsome weapon in the hands of almost anyone holding it.ReplyDelete
It was also known by the sobriquet 'the great equalizer' because it could be held by anyone, good or bad, low-keeper or law-breaker.
Power is power. It is neither good nor evil, but reflects and amplifies the intent of that person wielding it.
Last thought: there is more power available today, to more people, than there has been for thousands, probably tens of thousands, and maybe even hundreds of thousands of years. How many times has the human race raised itself from the primitive to the powerful, only to lose it by using it?
Power is power. It is neither good nor evil, but reflects and amplifies the intent of that person wielding it.ReplyDelete
Precisely. And the pursuit of power for its own sake, as an intent unto itself, is thereby exposed as (i) an exercise in sheerest narcissism; and (ii) if at all successful, a positive feedback cycle. This isn't a combination calculated to end well.
I suspect that the answer to your last question is: - by the standards of the day and locally, very often; and by the standards of today or globally, probably not very often if ever; and for the future, I dunno, but "many times" seems an entirely plausible projection.
Also, I think that "power to" is just about as neutral as you say it is, whereas its popular but evil twin "power over" harbours a corruption of intent right from its beginning.


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State of Wonder
By Ann Patchett
Completed June 17, 2011
Dr. Marina Singh was safely nestled in her lab at Vogel Pharmaceuticals, when her CEO (and secret lover) announced tragic news: Her colleague, Anders Eckman, had died on assignment in the Amazon jungle. In a few short days, Marina would find herself in Brazil to resume where Anders had left off – to discover what the brilliant but elusive Dr. Annick Swenson was up to in the jungle (on Vogel's dime). Marina also had a personal mission: to find out what happened to her friend.
To complicate the story, Dr. Swenson and Marina shared a past. The elder physician was Marina's professor in medical school, and as the story progressed, we learned why Marina went from a future obstetrician to a pharmacologist. Marina hoped Dr. Swenson wouldn't remember her from their days together at Johns Hopkins, but just the presence of Dr. Swenson made Marina relive her past – and her mistakes.
State of Wonder is a delightful story of self-discovery. Marina goes from a Ph.D. in a lab to a physician in the jungle. She faced her fears and learned things that few would be able to know. Most importantly, Marina learned more about herself.
Patchett's depiction of the characters in this book was exquisite. Marina was an easy heroine to root for, and Dr. Swenson, despite her acerbic ways, grew on you. Even the minor characters shined under Patchett's pen. My favorite was Easter – a deaf boy who lived in the tribe where Dr. Swenson studied and became a surrogate son to many of the Vogel employees who came to the camp.
State of Wonder does force its readers to suspend many levels of disbelief, though. Admittedly, I had a hard time accepting some of the events that occurred in the story: Marina trampling around the jungle with only flip flops on her feet; an incredible fight with an anaconda; pregnant 70-year-old women, and psychedelic blue mushrooms and fertility-enducing tree bark that were consumed by the natives. Too much? Maybe, but the story moved me right along, and I didn't cast too much of a second glance at these hard-to-believe details.
In the end, Ann Patchett once again delighted her fans- and probably earn some new fans along the way. State of Wonder is an excellent voyage for readers who love when characters learn about themselves – and come out at the end with more trust, courage and self-happiness. ( )
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Friday, May 8, 2015
Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story Trailer
Rumors of a Marble Hornets movie have been going around for a few years and one has finally come to fruition. Always Watching follows a news team that finds a box of movies containing a faceless figures in a suit, The Operator, terrorizing a family, slowly driving them insane. As a fan of the Marble Hornets series I was excited to hear that a movie had been made, it isn't a compete continuation of the series, but from the trailer it looks pretty good. Plus it has a stellar cast that includes Alexandra Breckenridge (American Horror Story, The Walking Dead) and Jake McDorman (American Sniper). The movie is out now on Video on Demand and will see a limited theater run starting May 15. Tell me what you think of the trailer below and if you plan to see it.
Have a good night!
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
The Houses October Built (2014)
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Torment (2013)
Thursday, April 9, 2015
A Tricky Treat (2015)
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Finders Keepers (2014)
Friday, October 31, 2014
Halloween II (1981)
Friday, October 24, 2014
Home Movie (2008)
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The Charlotte Chronicles (Jackson Boys #1) by Jen Frederick begins a new generation of lovers.
Charlotte and Nathan were supposed to be forever. They grew up together. Their families were intertwined. Charlotte was Nathan's first love. Nathan was Charlotte's first everything.
Until they weren't.
How do you hold on to the person you know in your heart you are supposed to be with when everything and everyone in the universe is telling you it's over?
How many times does a heart break?
When is enough…..enough?
How long is forever?
Oh my, those Jackson boys! I just might like this series more than the first series that focused on their parents. The intensity of the situations these young adults are placed in ratchets up the emotion. Watching Charlotte and Nathan live -both together and separately- gave readers a multi-dimensional picture of who they were. And I loved the concept of seeing the next generation of these families find their HEA.
5 Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries
This book was given to us by the author through NetGalley. Many thanks.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Book #REVIEW: The Charlotte Chronicles by Jen Frederick @JenSFred
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known as Slim Shady and his primary stage name Eminem, is an Academy Award-winning American rapper, record producer and actor. Having sold over seventy million albums worldwide,Eminem is one of the highest-selling rappers of all time.
Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling hip hop album in history,followed by an increasing amount of popularity, critical praise, as well as controversy. While Eminem has won many Grammy Awards, been praised for having "verbal energy", high quality of lyricism and been ranked at number nine on MTV's list of The Greatest MCs of All Time, on the MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music" and on The Rolling Stones "Immortal Artists"he has often been infamous for the controversy surrounding many of these lyrics, including allegations of glorifying homophobia, misogyny, and violence.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, the son of Deborah Mathers-Briggs and Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr.Shortly after his birth, his father walked out, leaving his son. Until he was twelve, Marshall Mathers and his mother often moved between St. Joseph and Warren, Michigan, a Detroit suburb. As a teenager, Mathers became interested in hip hop, performing amateur raps at age fourteen under the pseudonym "M&M" and joining the group Soul Intent around 1995, when his first single was released. Although a student of Lincoln High School in Warren, he frequently participated in freestyle battles at Osbourne High School across town, gaining the approval of underground hip hop audiences. After repeating the ninth grade three times due to truancy, he dropped out of high school at age 17.
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I love the classic style of Mulberry bags and now they will be available at Target! Gilt had a sneak preview sale, and by the time I was able to look online, everything had already been sold out :( Since I've been trying not to spend money on clothes these past months, it's probably better that I wait till October to see the bags in person anyway.
J. Crew Fall 2010 Collection
J. Crew Fall 2010 Collection
I'm currently loving the look of thin, loose scrunchy socks. They remind me of the days of Mary Janes with frilly ankle socks. I normally don't shop at J. Crew because the prices are quite high, but I'm definitely inspired by their Fall looks, especially with all the layering involved.
Moving onto a sadder topic, I am out of a dSLR at the moment, due to unwise decisions that involve a borrowed, cheap, plastic water bottle, hiking in the forest, a zoom lens and d90. Let's just say the lens is beyond repair and more money is being thrown out to fix the cam. Oh the stupidity of it all...I suppose if moths and rust don't destroy, water can always do plenty of damage.


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Here are a couple of photos while we were at the J. W. Marriott Ko Olina Resort & Spa . . . the first sunset photo is the view from the 3rd floor beachfront room balcony! The second photo is from the lagoon where we were swimming!
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Some random photo's
The double baby burrito!
Weeks 34 + 35 Stash Report
Well, I hit a pot hole called Fabric Mart and made a little purchase - only 2 yards, but I have already used a yard of it! I plan on doing more damage before we leave . . .
Fabric in this week: 2 yards
Total fabric in YTD: 128.529 yards
Fabric used this week: 1 yard
Total fabric in YTD: 103.791 yards
Net: -24.738 yards
As soon as I am able to download some pictures, I will post them! Thanks for the Birthday wishes - wait until you see what I got . . .
Fabric in this week: 2 yards
Total fabric in YTD: 128.529 yards
Fabric used this week: 1 yard
Total fabric in YTD: 103.791 yards
Net: -24.738 yards
As soon as I am able to download some pictures, I will post them! Thanks for the Birthday wishes - wait until you see what I got . . .
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Week 33 - Stash Report
Well, my report is the same as last week, although I came close to purchasing fabric yesterday at the swap meet at Aloha Stadium. There were several vendors there that had Hawaiian themed fabrics already cut into squares and rectangles, but I was unsure of the fabric content . . . so I held off purchasing. They do sell a cotton/poly blend that I want to purchase to make tablecloths for our picnic tables and it's only $2.50 yd!
Fabric in this week: 0.000 yardsTotal fabric in YTD: 126.529 yards
Fabric used this week: 0.500 yardsTotal fabric used YTD: 102.291 yards
Net: -23.738 yards
Our little Hawaiian grandbabies are doing great, eating more at each feeding and sleeping a little longer with each day since our arrival!
Monday, August 10, 2009
Design Wall Monday
Well, here is what is on my design wall this morning and I am not happy with it. I used different colors of solids for the sashing and the repro prints for the cornerstones, but I do not like all of the different colors. I will be ripping off all the sashing and replacing it with a color that has yet to be determined. I would like to use a darker purple for the 1st inner border. That large floral is what I plan on using for the outer border and binding it with the green that's folded on top or perhaps the dark purple. Check out other design walls by visiting Patchwork Times
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Week 32 - Stash Report
Well can't post any new pictures today because my daughter has my camera, so this will be a boring report . . . Didn't purchase any fabric this week with the exception of 2 BOM's. I did get a quilt quilted and bound though and I have been working on a quilt that's been on my design wall for about a month now too, so progress is being made, but slowly!
Check out how other quilters are doing with their stash busting at: Patchwork Times
Fabric in this week: .500 yards
Total fabric in YTD: 126.529 yards
Fabric out this week: 1.625 yards
Total fabric out YTD: 102.291 yards
Net: -24.238
Check out how other quilters are doing with their stash busting at: Patchwork Times
Monday, August 3, 2009
Design Wall Monday
Design Wall Monday has rolled around again and wonders never cease, this time I actually have something I am working on on the wall! It's Part 2 of Bonnie Hunter's Christmas Lights from the Sept/Oct issue of Quiltmaker magazine. I also have a quilt on the frame. but I've only done 3 rows of a pantograph, so it may be a day or two before I can finish that one as I can only work on it while the girls are napping!
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Week 31 - Stash Report
Well, didn't spend too much time at the machine this week, but I did take the time to tally up all the fabric I subcut while we were travelling during weeks 29 + 30. I subcut 5 inch WOF strips from my stash into squares from 1.5 inches to 5 inches in increments of one-half inch . It was the one thing I could take with me that was quilty related without my machine! Just the thought of taking my machine on the plane makes me shudder, so I packed a small mat (12 x 18), my rotary cutter and the 6 x 12 ruler and started cutting up all of the fabric I brought with me! It worked out really well too. There were ironing boards and irons in the rooms we stayed in and there was always a flat surface to cut on. The only problem was the evenings, the lighting was not that good, so next time I might bring my portable OTT Light, but I would carry that on!
Fabric added this week: 0 yards
Total added: 126.029 yards
Fabric used this week: 6 yards
Total used: 100.666 yards
Net: -25.363 yards
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If you have a website, and would like to exchange links just email me at the above address.
The Iowa Blues Showcase is on the AIR
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Blues Historian Review: Taylor Hicks, Whomp At The Warfield
I received this DVD from some fine folks at one of Taylor Hicks fan clubs. I suppose a review is not really necessary since his fans will love the DVD no matter what I say. However, I can safely say for those of you who haven't listened to this guy yet, that this DVD is for you. Taylor Hicks is the real deal. I have said this many times, but it is true the man can sing the blues, soul, R&B and rock and roll. Whomp At The Warfield is mostly a soul filled romp recorded live at The Warfield in San Francisco back in 2007. The band in incredibly tight and Hicks has both the band and the fans pumped up from start to finish.
I must admit I am fascinated with Hicksmania. Perhaps in a differnet time and place before the music business imploded from its own excess he would have been the next incarnation of Elvis, but today in a music scene that is so large, over played, and mega corrupt, Hicks seems to fly beneath the radar. It is both fortunate and unfortunate. In one sense his fan base is tremendous and very faithful. In many ways he and his fans remind me of the relationship between Tom Jones and his fans. Jones never got his due, was regarded as a pop singer, and his legendary fans have followed him forever. Both Jones, and Hicks can sing anything, blues, soul, R&B, Pop, Country, and folk. However, the blues purist would not think about either one as a blues performer, but when I hear them sing I think otherwise.
The other thing that strikes me when I watch the video is that Taylor reminds me a lot of the good qualities of Elvis. It is more than the accent, because both have the Mississippi drawl, but it is their obvious love of the music, and culture of African Americans. Also Taylor doesn't have all the trappings that came with Elvis's fame. Perhaps in the long run it is a good thing that the music industry doesn't control artists like in the old days because that's what ruined Elvis.
This is a great DVD. lots of energy, and great music. Buy it today you can't go wrong.
8 comments:
- san said...
Thanks, Blues, for one of the best reviews/assessments I have ever read of Taylor Hicks and his music. You have it right on...Taylor is the "real deal." This is why fans will follow him forever as they did Tom Jones.
- April 17, 2010 at 8:29 AM
- soulthing said...
I couldn't agree more. Taylor is one of the top performers around today - a performer who does not need bells, lasers, eyeliner or crotch grabbing to divert attention away from the basic gift - the singing and the delivery of the blues and every other style of music.
Keep on doin' what you do, Taylor! I'm a fan for life!
- April 17, 2010 at 10:53 AM
- tishlp said...
Bluesman, you rock, you get it! Thanks for the great review of Taylor and his music.
- April 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM
Thanks for this great review. I've seen Taylor live many times and this DVD is a true representative of how he performs in a theater. Fired up, bluesy and constant motion.
- April 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM
We are all products of our times , so Taylor must find his way in today's music biz world. Because he is his "own man" , he will find happiness performing with or without media support. We fans are here for the long haul and wish Taylor only the best.
Thanks for your thoughts on WATW. As fans of yours, we value your opinion.
- April 17, 2010 at 12:24 PM
I loved reading your comments and observations on Taylor and, actually, Tom Jones too. Taylor is a great all-around musical performer and entertainer. I wish more people "got" him and were able to look beyond the preconceived notions and prejudices, including media and music fans alike, and took the time to explore what he's all about to truly see what a talent this man is. He is too underappreciated and ignored.
- April 17, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Love you, Tom! It's so refreshing to read a review from someone who understands Taylor. I love Taylor as a singer and entertainer, but I think he really excells at putting bands together. These guys were seamless! I hated to see them go their separate ways when this tour ended. It's good to read that someone else appreciates them.
- April 17, 2010 at 3:27 PM
What a great review! So nice to hear someone give Taylor his due, instead of all the negative things we read. Taylor doesn't need all the trappings of Elvis....he has his voice and his talent. I am another Fan For Life!
- April 19, 2010 at 11:08 PM


text: At certain points this blog may catch your attention with a blushing sex/relationship tale. However, there is more to life than just doing it. While I am not doing it, I am a very active girl who shares a humorous angle of even the most ordinary aspects of life. Yes, each experience is good because we can laugh at the bad, relish in the lovely, and enjoy the absolutely fantastic. Since we are all living each minute together, let's kick back and share the most truthful yet most hysterical parts of the things that stand out. Hello, it is time to kiss and blog.


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date: Wed, 22 May 1996 16:16:26 -0500 (EST)
from: LUCKMANatXYZxyzL.UWO.CA
subject: IAI treelines meeting
to: K.BRIFFAatXYZxyz.AC.UK
Department of Geography,
University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario,
Canada, N6A 3K1.
telephone 519-679-2111 ext 5012
Fax 519-661-3750
e-mail LuckmanatXYZxyzl.uwo.ca
May 21st, 1996
Dear Keith,
Last year the US National Science Foundation initiated the Inter American
Institute for Global Change Start-up Grant Program (IAISG). The objective of
these grants is to provide funds to facilitate the development of proposals that
address the IAI Science Agenda and will be submitted to IAI Phase II. Broadly
speaking this agenda addresses global change issues in the Americas and stresses
international scientific collaboration at the individual, institutional, national
and international levels.
Simultaneously a series of research initiatives were being developed in
conjunction with the PEP-1 (Americas) transect of IGBP PAGES. As a response to
both of these initiatives an IAISG proposal was developed to request funds for
a meeting of scientists to discuss and develop research proposals relating to
climate variability and change based on the natural archives found in treeline
environments along the American Cordillera. The concept was hold a meeting in
Canada in October 1996 with about 30-40 scientists drawn from the fields of
ecology, paleoecology, climatology, dendrochronology, quaternary geology/
geomorphology and glaciology. This proposal was recommended for IAI funding and,
though I have not yet received formal notification of funding from NSF, it is
expected within the next month. The meeting will be held in Jasper, Alberta,
Canada between ca. 5th-10th October 1996 (precise timing will be confirmed
later). A brief outline of the proposed meeting and the goals of this project are
I am writing to you at this time as one of the key participants to find out
whether you are interested in and able to attend this meeting and to provide some
preliminary details. In order to plan the program effectively I need some
information from potential participants and a realistic estimate of their travel
costs. The funds from IAI will not cover the entire cost of the meeting for all
participants and I am trying to obtain additional financial support for the
meeting from other sources. I anticipate that conference costs in Canada (i.e.
to and from Calgary) will be covered for all invited participants plus a major
part of their travel expenses but cannot give a firmer commitment until I have
a clearer picture of the total budget.
The first part of the meeting will consist of overview papers on selected topics
plus short presentations of recent results by participants. As you can see from
the attached outline the general focus is on treeline ecology/paleoecology;
dendrochronology and long records from these environments plus complementary high
(annual) resolution proxy climate data sets. The second part and major focus of
the meeting will consist of working group discussions targetted towards proposal
development which would be completed during the meeting. There will also be
opportunities to visit a number of classic treeline sites in the Canadian Rockies
(e.g. Peyto Lake, Athabasca Glacier\Sunwapta Pass).
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At the present time I am requesting certain basic information from all potential
participants. I would be grateful if you could provide me with the information
requested on the attached list as soon as possible. I will contact you again,
hopefully within a month, with a list of confirmed participants and a tentative
program of presentations.
I hope that you will be able to join us in Jasper in October and that we will
have a very productive exchange of information and ideas that will lead to the
development of long term collaboration between participants relating to
global/climate change within the Americas. I look forward to hearing from you in
the near future.
Yours sincerely
Brian Luckman
P.S. Please excuse this formal letter. Other tree-ring people will include
malcolm, gordon, lisa, stahle, villalba, lara and boninsegna. My guess is you
might want to talk about methods but you might, I think, have some south American
stuff as well but we can discuss particulars later. At this stage I wanted to
let you know the dates and see whether you can be tempted to fit us into your
schedule. I will guarantee the Columbia Icefields but cannot promise the
weather will be as welcoming!!
Institutional address
Office Telephone Number
Home Telephone number
Office FAX number
E-Mail Address
Will you be able to attend the "treelines" meeting ca October 5-10 in Jasper,
Alberta, Canada.
Estimated travel cost to Calgary, Alberta (US $$ please)
(APEX or excursion fare, advanced booking, travel over a Saturday night)
Would you be able to meet partial travel costs to attend the meeting (this is not
a commitment but for information only at this stage)
Topics on which you would be prepared to contribute to the discussions (see
scientific themes attached) and area of specific regional expertise.
Are there any periods during the next 6 months when you will be away from your
home institution for periods of several weeks. If so could you provide an
alternative contact address for these periods.
The PEP-1 transect in the Americas contains several unique geographical features
namely; (i) it is the longest contiguous latitudinal terrestrial transect on
earth; (ii) the western cordillera provide a physiographic unity to this transect
that is not found elsewhere at this scale; and, (iii) the juxtaposition of
mountains and ocean throughout the transect allow comparison of terrestrial and
marine records. Therefore the PEP-1 (Americas) transect offers unique
opportunities for collaborative scientific work that addresses; interhemispheric
comparisons between similar environments; comparison of records along major
latitudinal gradients; and comparison of adjacent terrestrial and oceanic
These latitudinal dimensions allow significant insight into global patterns of
climate change at various timescales that cannot easily be accomplished in other
areas of the world. Evaluation of these patterns can yield critical information
for the testing of ideas about forcing functions and controls of climate
variability at interannual and decade-to century timescales.
The presence of mountain environments throughout this transect is of paramount
significance because of the proven potential of these areas to yield high quality
paleoenvironmental data. The sharp environmental gradients allow the close
juxtaposition of diverse, climatically-sensitive, environments (e.g. glaciers,
upper and lower treelines, internally draining lake basins) that have the
potential to preserve relatively long, continuous records of environmental
changes. Upper and lower treeline areas provide the greatest opportunities
because of the strong contrasts in vegetation, microclimates and processes
between adjacent environments. Moreover, the severe environments (dry and/or
cold) adjacent to treelines are conducive to the preservation of evidence on or
near the surface that would quickly decay in more temperate environments. The
treelines of the Americas are also home to many of the longest-lived tree species
in the world. Thus, although the PEP-1 Americas Transect lacks the long
instrumental or human documentary records common in some other areas of the
world, it contains some of the best and longest high resolution natural archives.
A meeting will be held in Jasper, Alberta, Canada in early October 1996. The
meeting will involve scientists from a wide range of IAI member countries who
will review the present status and discuss the development of comparative studies
at treeline environments along the American cordillera that will;
(i) evaluate and benchmark the climate signals found at modern treeline sites
and determine the response of this sensitive environment to recent climate
(ii) develop a network of comparable high resolution proxy climate series that
show interannual climate variation at treeline over the last ca 1000 years for
key localities;
(iii) utilise these data to examine the local and regional patterns of
interannual and longer term climate variability to develop data on key temporal
and spatial patterns of forcing functions.
(i) understanding the contemporary environments
(a) dynamics and characteristics of present treelines
climate controls
ecological controls
fire and other natural hazards
human effects
regional differences (species, human interference etc)
disturbance regimes
(b) dendroclimatology and isotope dendroclimate of treeline sites
nature of the contemporary climate signal recovered from tree-ring studies at
approaches to the reconstruction of paleorecords from these data
sampling networks
transfer functions
synoptic dendroclimatology
(ii) paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on records from treeline sites in the
American Cordillera
(a) reconstruction of recent trends from population and seedling studies- responses of
contemporary treelines to recent climate fluctuations and other controls (last 1-
200 years)
(b) longer term histories based on macrofossil (subfossil) snag material on the surface
histories based on palynology and bog records macrofossils etc (last 1-2000 years?)
(c) proxy climate histories based on tree ring studies from treeline sites (width,
density,isotopes, last 1000 years)
(d) complementary histories based on other high resolution proxy data sources from this
(and adjacent) environments (glacier fluctuations, glacio-lacustrine and ice-core
(a) climate variability at interannual, decadal and centennial timescales.
(b) environmental changes along latitudinal gradients
(c) interhemispheric comparison of high resolution proxy climate records.
(d) comparison of treeline environments with differing latitudes and hemispheres
(e) information from records about forcing functions
1. Overview of existing state of knowledge in the SCIENTIFIC THEMES listed above (invited
review statements prepared for the meeting to form a basis for discussion).
2. Recognise obvious areas of existing strength and collaborative potential. Examples might
include, contrasts in the controls and history of treelines along the cordillera; differences
in response to past and present climate of treelines and tree-ring signals for different taxa
in different geographical regions; comparisons of glacier-treeline records of the American
cordillera and southern Andes.
3. Identify significant gaps in the site networks, available data or the techniques used.
There are major differences in the amount, detail and development of studies available along
this transect and it is clear that significant work is necessary within South and Central
America, and to a lesser extent Canada, to provide a balanced geographic network of sites.
4. Examine the existing database sources for material related to these projects. Several
research areas are well served in this regard- e.g. the International Tree-ring Databank,
existing Palynological and Ice core data bases- but the meeting may need to review the need
for repositories for new project data which does not fit easily into existing archives. This
would also involve the development of a series of data protocols for these materials.
5. Assess the scientific resources, personnel and areas for possible collaboration within the
research fields discussed and identify critical groups of researchers in each of these fields
to develop proposal/funding ideas. The goal would be to strengthen interhemispheric research
ties along the PEP-1 transect and open up and develop stronger research and institutional
links within the Americas. This could include recommendations for the development of programs
and/or facilities for the academic exchange of researchers and students between cooperating
6. Identify the critical research questions that should be addressed using the data presented
and discussed at the meeting.
7. Develop a long-term research strategy to address these questions that would also involve
international cooperation in facility and research personnel development. This would involve
a mix of research endeavours that; (i) could be accomplished from data exchange and
collaboration using presently available data; (ii) could be accomplished using data from
studies presently in progress or by minor updating of presently available data (e.g. tree-
ring chronologies); (iii) would require major new data collection initiatives. This would
involve the identification of key resources, geographic or thematic areas to be targeted for
future work.
8. Select material from these discussions for the development of a series of stage 2
9. Develop the outline, framework and timetable for a proceedings volume ("Treeline
Environments of the Americas") to address the main themes in (1) and perhaps some initial
comparative studies as discussed in (2). This might include the development of a reference
data base of compatible annually or decadally resolved time series from various proxy sources
for the use of researchers and/or students within this field.
10. Discuss the possibilities of continued monitoring (possibly in association with AMIGO or
IGBP monitoring programs) at selected treeline environments.
One Week (Saturday-Thursday) Four working days, one day at local treeline sites for field discussion of
problems, etc.
Scientific Program
Section 1: Present treelines- ecology, controls, north-south differences- recent dynamics
Section 2: High resolution records from treeline environments and other proxy data sources
Section 3: Climate variation at interannual to century timescales: spatial and temporal patterns.
Section 4: Review and development of proposals, preparation of meeting reports
General format (paper sessions)
a) Keynote- overview (probably separate regional accounts)-30/45 minutes
b) Individual case studies of new/ongoing projects (20 minutes)
c) Some initial comparative studies
d) Rapporteur's comments; identification of major themes/issues.
Locality: Jasper, Alberta, Canada
Conference Facility: Conference Hotel in Jasper
Dates: October 5 -10th, 1996.


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Thursday, July 03, 2014
byCommon Dreams
Hillary Clinton Goes to Bat for GMOs at Biotech Conference
The potential presidential candidate's old industry ties resurface
Speaking at a conference in San Diego last week for the world's largest trade organization of biotechnology firms, potential presidintial candidate Hillary Clinton backed GMOs and Big Ag, further displaying her allegiance to the industry in the eyes of sustainable food and organic advocates.
While trumpeting her endorsement of GMO seeds when she served as Secretary of State, Clinton told the crowd that the term "'genetically modified' sounds Frankensteinish," and thus turns people off to GMOs. "Drought resistant sounds really like something you'd want," she said, encouraging the industry to improve their semantics. "There's a big gap between the facts and what the perceptions are."
"If Hillary Clinton intends to run for office in 2016, she should think carefully about supporting a food and farming system that is proven to be detrimental to public health." —Katherine Paul, Organic Consumers Association
Clinton's certainty concerning the safety of GMO foods stands in stark contrast to public opinion. A Consumer Reports poll in June found that 92 percent of Americans favor labeling the foods.
U.S. campaigners rejecting the industry's push for genetically-modified crops have been pushing hard to get states to pass labeling laws.
"Hillary Clinton's views on GMOs are disappointing, but not surprising," said Katherine Paul, associate director of the Organic Consumers Union, in an email to Common Dreams. Unfortunately, Paul continued, Clinton's positions are "no different than those of previous administrations, including the Bush, Clinton and Reagan administrations, and they are taken straight from the biotech industry's talking points."
"Credible scientists, backed by independent (not industry-funded) studies are clear about the fact that foods containing GMOs are linked to a host of chronic illnesses," Paul continued. "The American Medical Association has called for pre-market safety testing and a recent pilot study found unsafe levels of glysophate, the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, in the blood, urine and breast milk of American women."
During the hour that Clinton addressed the conference she also addressed fears that current subsidies and tax breaks aren't enough, or won't continue to be there in the future. "I don't want to see biotech companies or pharma companies moving out of our country simply because of some perceived tax disadvantage and potential tax advantage somewhere else," she assured the crowd, receiving vigorous applause in response.
"We should have an intensive discussion," Clinton said. "Maybe there's a way of getting a representative group of actors at the table" so that the federal government can help biotechs with "insurance against risk."
Clinton's ties to biotech have surfaced before, particularly her history with industry heavyweight Monsanto. The Rose Law Firm where Clinton worked in the 1980s represents both Monsanto and Tyson Foods.
Mark Penn, who served as CEO for one the world's largest public relations firms, Burson-Marsteller, which has also represented Monsanto, was a White House advisor under Bill Clinton and served as chief strategist and pollster to Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign.
During Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State, the State Department heavily pressured other countries to use GMOs through a variety of methods, including bringing foreign journalists to the U.S. to "participate in a one-week biotech tour" so that they could help shift public opinion in their home country.
Yet Clinton's choices in her personal life indicate she's not so convinced that the science is in on genetically modified foods. According to Walter Sheib, who served as White House executive chef during the Clinton presidency, the job offered him the "professional challenge of fulfilling Hillary Clinton's mandate of bringing...nutritionally responsible food to the White House," meaning nearly everything he used "was obtained from local growers and suppliers."
And as Mother Jones reported in 2012, Scheib said that while Clinton's rooftop garden at the White House wasn't "certified organic," everything in it "was absolutely grown without pesticides and fertilizers. I guess it's what these days we call 'natural.'"
"If Hillary Clinton intends to run for office in 2016, she should think carefully about supporting a food and farming system that is proven to be detrimental to public health," said Paul, "unless she and her family are willing to give up eating organic and eat the same toxic food that she promotes to the general population."
Watch a video of Clinton's comments below:
Hillary Clinton at BIO Convention 2014https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hypwb_SYaAc
Published on Jun 27, 2014Hillary Rodham Clinton, answering questions as if a presidential contender, speaks to thousands at the BIO International Convention on June 25, 2014, at the San Diego Convention Center. She was interviewed by Jim Greenwood, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a trade group based in Washington. For more on her appearances in San Diego, see Times of San Diego at
Seed patent primer: Is the use of GMOs preventing farmers from reusing their seeds?
Video: Hilary Clinton endorses GMOs, solution-focused crop biotechnology
"I stand in favor of using seeds and products that have a proven track record," Clinton said, adding that biotech professionals need to continue to try to make the case for GMO-skeptics. "There is a big gap between what the facts are, and what the perceptions are."
Clinton noted that there are unwarranted fears surrounding GMOs because many people do not understand science or biotechnology and are easily swayed by code words and misguided perceptions. "Genetically modified sounds 'Frankensteinish' – drought resistant sounds really like something you want," she said.Clinton's full talk is available in the video embedded below. Her comments on biotechnology begin at approximately 29 minutes in.
Clinton noted her own experiences of promoting drought-resistant seeds in Africa and meeting resistance to her efforts.
"We talk about drought-resistant seeds, and I've promoted them all over Africa. By definition, they have been engineered to be drought-resistant, I mean that's the beauty of them. Maybe somebody can get their harvest done and not starve, and maybe there's some left over to sell. And yet I've been involved in a lot of the political debates in other countries about whether or not to accept certain kinds of seeds," Clinton said.
Clinton emphasized the need for a comprehensive educational effort to help farmers, governments and the public accept genetically modified crops.
"We created a program called Feed the Future, which is trying to help the farmers be educated enough to know that drought-resistant seeds, for example, are not going to hurt them," Clinton said. "And this is painstaking work, doesn't get solved overnight. You have to be working at the top with the departments of agriculture, with finance ministries, with prime ministers and presidents' offices, and you have to be working from the bottom up. I don't see the short cut for it."
Clinton called for a new vocabulary in conversations about biotechnology that focuses on the benefits of improved crops.
"'Genetically modified' sounds Frankensteinish. 'Drought resistance' sounds really – something you want. So how do you create a different vocabulary to talk about what it is you're trying to help people do," Clinton said, encouraging biotechnology companies to be more thoughtful about the way their research is being communicated.
Clinton also said that she did not want to see the U.S. lose biotechnology companies as they move out of the country to elsewhere that might have a friendlier tax and regulatory system for biotechnology.
"I don't want to see biotech companies or pharma companies moving out of our country simply because of some perceived tax disadvantage and potential tax advantage somewhere else," she said.
Additional Resources:
- "Princess Anne rejects brother Prince Charles' anti-GMO views," Genetic Literacy Project
- "Food crisis will prompt GM foods rethink, says US aide," Farmers Weekly


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I have a lot of gratitude towards Claire Robertson of Loobylu. When I was on the fence about blogs and blogging, I found her site. It was what tossed me over to becoming obsessive about blogs. I read her blog all the time and wanted to move to Australia and force her to be my friend. She makes wonderful things from paintings, sketches, plush and so much more. Her site is beautiful, her studio is lovely and everything she mentions makes me happy. I love that she is able to share her work honestly and even shares the bad times with her readers. When I decided to start Plush You! I contacted Claire and asked her if she might mention it to her readers. She did and voila, Plush You! was born. I was really excited that she decided to do an interview with us so I could learn more. Enjoy!
S- I started reading your blog years ago. It seems like you were one of the first bloggers. Why did you start blogging and how did it change your craft?
L- I started blogging at the end of 1999. I was working in web design and started documenting my life online. I guess publishing has always appealed to me, and my own (not very exciting) life provided limitless content and the instant feedback was / is very seductive. The support I got from the visitors to my blog gave me the confidence (and clients) to eventually quit my job and work as a freelance illustrator. With the emergence of the 'craft blog' scene I found huge inspiration and a wonderful community atmosphere to start exploring all sorts of crazy, previously unthought of (for me) areas of work such as softy making. No matter which direction my work goes in I know
there will be someone somewhere visiting my blog who will say "go for it!". That kind of support is pretty vital to me because I work at home in the suburbs with really only my mum, dad, husband, a five year old and a 2 year old around to say "hey, that looks cool! Keep going!".
Read full interview here
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Loobylu Interview
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- Uptown Arts said...
Claire Robertson is so inspiring! I like her playful attitude and her energy really comes through in her blog posts.
Thanks for the article!
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Mamma's Biscuits
Mamma was famous for her biscuits, even got a write up in the paper. My sister 'n I asked her what her secret was to makin' 'em. We wrote down the recipe as she told us.
When the dough was made, she dumped it from the bowl onto a floured table. Then she fluffed 'n folded the dough end to end into a nice round ball. Here's the secret - she said she always gave it a "love pat". Then she took her rollin' pin 'n lightly rolled over the top of the dough. She used her fingers to fluff from underneath to get out the air. Mamma said not to twist your cutter to cut the biscuits. Then once they were cut, fluff from under 'em again 'n place onto a bakin' pan.
Mamma loved people 'n loved to cook for 'em, 'n she loved seein' people eatin' her food. One of her favorite Bible verses is John 3:16. She said that when God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins that was God's "love pat" to a hurtin' world. He loved us that much!
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Just want to thank ya' Lord for your great love for us! In the name of Jesus, amen.
Things To Think 'bout:
1. How do ya' see God's love in your life?
2. Where does your love stand for God?


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Mountain Brewer's Beer Festival: Tomorrow, Sat, June 6th, Idaho Falls. It's not too late to go! This is easily the best event in the region. Over 100 breweries and 6,000 attendees. The event is almost 20 yrs old and is completely planned and manned by volunteers. The event was started by a local home brew club and they do an amazing job. They're organized, mobilized, prepared. They have volunteers who have been doing the same job over 18 yrs! It's a charity event and it's impressive.
Not too late to join us. Come on out!


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The city of Zaun is a harsh and unforgiving environment and thus, is no place for pleasant lives. Amandien was a young girl living amongst the lower end of the city, an even more vile and run down area. She lived with her mother and sister, Madeline, and despite the decrepit conditions they lived in, she was happy. She had no idea of any other 'better life' outside of her home and took every bad with the good and never wanted any more. The poor conditions could not phase her as she had never seen anything better. Her childhood passed and she grew an inspiration for music. In her youth the violent sounds of the city were calmed by the winds of a flute and the melodies her mother sang. On moonlit nights Amandien would take her mother's flute and play songs to the sleeping city.
One evening, her mother came home, tired and overworked and fell asleep before the night's arrival. Amandien decided to take the flute and play not far outside. But even cities such as Zaun rested and before the night, chaos still ran. That dreadful evening Amandien fell victim to one of the many fire-bombings from the all too common anarchists of the city. When she awoke, she lied burnt, crippled, and dying in a hospital. At her side was her mother's flute, but her family was never notified. She lied alone. It was at this point did she realize that this lower end of the city could not save her. Hope fell from her once dreamy eyes and she wanted to die, but death did not come, death was patient.
One fateful morning she received a visitor, someone who claimed that he alone could save her, improve her, and make her that the likes of which have never been witnessed. To her luck, Viktor decided to take his new designs, to save her life for reasons only he knew. She was taken into his lair amongst the upper area of Zaun were she was improved, and recreated. Amandien became a part of Viktor's evolution and she felt reborn. The new feeling of power surged within her as she rose again. She felt stronger, smarter, better. Finally she had found what it was like to be more than a poor victimized child. She had power. This new feeling of power ran through her head like an epidemic. She wanted more, she craved it, needed it. She begged Viktor to add more to her, she needed the best machinery he could give and the knowledge to use every bit. Reluctantly, he accepted as he found it able to further his knowledge on beyond normal enhancement. But even after countless additions, it wasn't enough. She desired more and more till eventually, the only 'humanity' left in her was but half her face. All that remained of her once beautiful face was a sliver of skin and hair. It wasn't until then that she realized that it was too far, she didn't hate herself, she only wanted to improve, not replace. By then she was a monster. A hulking and overwhelming leviathan of machinery and weapons. Lost in fear of her own image, she looked to Viktor, blaming him. He should have let her die and not create a monster of herself. In her blind rage and fear she tore through Viktor's lair and ran. After months of running and torment, she found it. The League of Legends. Not knowing of it she walked in finding herself amongst warriors, hereos....and other monsters. They waged combat under summoners and to her, this could relive herself, she could find what she needed, a place of acceptance. But in her ignorance, in her fear, she forgot what she had done to herself. She did this.


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Davos diplomacy: The World Economic Forum continues in Davos, Switzerland today, with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani laying the foundations for a more economically solid Iran. In a speech early this morning, Rouhani stressed that a secure economy was imperative in an unstable Middle East. The speech comes on the same day as Rouhani's regional rival's, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Coincidentally, their two airplanes were neighbors when they landed.
Campus violence: The University of Oklahoma is resuming normal operations today after false reports of gunshots sent the campus into a lockdown yesterday. It was the third threat of campus violence this week; a student was shot and killed at Indiana's Purdue University on Tuesday, and another incident at Pennsylvania's Widener University critically injured a student on Monday night.
Zimmerman's latest: Going on sale today, George Zimmerman's newest painting, this one of Angela Corey, who prosecuted him in the death of Trayvon Martin.
How many clicks does it take? Canvas masterpieces have been pixelated into digital art by The Washington Post. See how quickly you can identify these great works (it took us 12 clicks to recognize "Starry Night").
Cosby returns: And finally, comedian Bill Cosby is making a return to the airwaves. The 76-year-old is helping to develop a new multigenerational family sitcom for NBC. A premiere date has not been announced.


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Walking in the winds
When all the lipstick stains have dried
Smeared prayers across your lips
Yeah, now go and kiss the bride
We can only bless the time
And hope for gentle weather
And that the will to grow together
Just grows stronger in the wind.
– Danny Schmidt
I am fascinated with how God designed the human experience to be an echo of nature. In Minnesota we experience nature's seasons in the extreme. Four months of gray, back-flexing cold create a hope and longing that murmurs in our Scandanavian souls. The resilient dirty snow makes its last stand in the corner of a Slumberland parking lot. Then at last….GREEN returns, and are spirits are renewed.
Life is seasonal. We pray for gentle weather but we must embrace the cold. The drought. The storm. Embrace it for the longing it induces. Humanity lusts after comfort and can be lured into monotony. I just don't think God intended us to strive for flat-lining, Floridian existence. Godless comfort is empty comfort. As Augustine discovered: "You have made us for thyself and our hearts are restless until we find rest in thee."
We know the winds will come. Seasons will change. All we can do is pray that they will draw us closer together and amplify our thirst for our Creator. – eric


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Update on Bob
Bob the Turtle in the hospital
Originally uploaded by Athenamama
Officials say a tortoise who was stolen, slashed and mutilated is still being fed through a tube in his neck but is healing nicely. - KSBY
"He's doing pretty darned well now," said Jeanie Vaughan, the center's owner. - SFGate
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