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Well, here's a short relief before I have another post of our trip to St. Petersburg and the week in a mökki in Finland. After Hawaii, it was already time to go back home, where I enjoyed a week alone in our apartment. It was weird not having anyone around me, but also kind of relaxing. I used the time to finish two dresses and kind of finish a cardigan, all of which I had started back in LA. First an infinity dress that I had cut, not thinking about the fact that I needed a serger, or at least a zigzag machine for it.
This is one of the dresses that are extremely fast and easy to make, but look really impressive. When I was wearing another (shorter red) version of this dress a lady stopped me in the middle of the street to ask where I got it. Notably in Switzerland where YOU DON'T DO SUCH THINGS! I was so proud of myself (even if the lady in question was Dutch). I very loosely followed the instructions by Rostitchery. I obviously made mine maxi, not knee length as hers. I didn't have enough fabric to do the circle skirt in maxi length, so used a pleated rectangle of fabric for the skirt instead. I laso lengthened the waistband, so it works as a tube top and thus gives more coverage. Here's the back view:
Then I plunged headfirst into sewing up the Colette Chantilly dress. I found this gorgeous grey and lilac cotton voile? lawn? at Fabric Planet in Venice. It was end of the bolt, and I had to cheat with the pattern pieces quite a bit, but that worked out ok. What didn't, however, was the fit. Once again.
I should know that Colette don't fit my average bust, as they are designed for bigger busts. I was just so excited about the fabric and the pattern that I ignored that knowledge. Note to self: Next time try to go with the bust measurement and let out the darts to fit the waist. Maybe that's easier to do than a SBA? (She says, hoping against reason).
Maybe next time I should go down a size, as the waist is also a bit big, as well as the back. Here's the evidence:
As I love the fabric, I will hang the dress in the closet and wait for some weight gain (which will undoubtedly happen at some point in the future).
Then I finished knitting the PeggySue cardigan (Ravelry pattern link).
I even weaved in all the ends (which I unreasnably hate doing) and sewed on buttons. Only the buttons were too small and undid themselves immediately after buttoning. So off they came again. I will have to find some bigger ones in Fall when I'm back. Here's the back view:
So that's what I did in one week. Apart from laundry, meeting up with friends and wasting a lot of time on Youtube. Then PB and my Mamma and Sister arrived and the quiet times were (luckily) over.
BTW: the colourful pouf in the pictures above is made from Marimekko fabric I got from PB's father in January. It's still not filled enough and kind of wobbly to sit on, but I have already some ides how that can be improved. I love how it adds even more colour to our home! I also went to Ikea with my Mamma and got some more furniture, so I feel an apartment update coming on…


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The stage:
XM Satellite Radio
The time: Mid-December, mid-afternoon, about 30 minutes late for the meeting because we got lost.
The players: Allen Goldberg, Director of Corp. Affairs; Hugh Panero, CEO; and Gary Parsons, Chairman.
The story
It was a sunny, clear, and brisk December afternoon when we had an appointment to meet executives at the nation's leading satellite radio firm, XM. The company, along with sole competitor Sirius Satellite
Both XM and Sirius offer more than 100 digital radio channels of music, talk, sports, and more. You receive signals anywhere in the country, can listen in your car or home, and all the music channels are commercial-free. (XM moves to that model Feb. 1). After you buy a receiver (anywhere from $99 to $300), XM costs $9.99 a month and Sirius is $12.95 monthly. Paying in advance, the costs decrease.
Two years ago, many people -- including us -- wondered if customers would pay for radio. We shorted Sirius at $7 because the company had so much debt, zero revenue and was lagging XM. The short worked well (going below $1 at one point), but now, as XM hosts nearly 1.4 million subs and Sirius 261,000, it's clear people are paying for radio and loving it. Now word of mouth is growing about the quality of the offerings; the lack of ads; the diversity and mix; the ability to listen while driving across country. All this makes for lively conversation.
Last year the stocks came to life, though XM much more than Sirius. It was under these upbeat conditions that we arrived at XM headquarters to -- as investors, analysts, and consumers -- take it in, pose some questions, and listen.
From the front door to the main floor
XM spearheaded development in an economically depressed part of D.C., near Capitol Hill, when it bought and rehabbed a big old brick warehouse. You enter glass doors and recognize immediately the hand of award-winning modern design -- light, open, sleek, cool -- thanks to the architectural firm Studios. (You can follow along with us at their website, choosing XM Satellite Radio under "Portfolios.") Setting the stage upon entrance is the indelible corporate icon above, XM with "signals" emanating from it, but with the XM turned 90 degrees -- projected high up on the brick wall. Nice.
Up an elevator to the main floor, we're first shown the glass-walled command center (something straight from NASA, but darkly lit). From a Captain Kirk chair, a human and myriad controls monitor XM's satellites and stations, 24/7 via dozens of colorful wall monitors. The key engineering braintrust lives to the right in its own sanctum.
They tried to tell us the graphic-equalizer-type thermometers, which were bouncing up and down in red and green bars, corresponded to each of the 100 broadcasting channels, but their smile gave it away. They honestly weren't sure what those were for. To the two of us -- steeled against the corporate spinmeisters -- it was completely disarming.
There's a lack of spin at XM, though maybe it's because we're from The Motley Fool -- we make people comfortable (we hope!). Moving on, sure, we met a number of executives with firm handshakes and hole-boring gazes -- we'd worry if we hadn't (this is the culture of finance, and companies on the march to profitability need that, doncha know). But in the wide-open office spaces, where everyone is visible, Bad Attitudes would be hard to hide. Our antennae said people were having a good time, working, enjoying, creating. The esprit de corps was high. And why not? This is radio, reborn.
The high points from the high chair
Case in point. We went in for what we all expected to be a 15-minute meet-and-greet with Chairman Gary Parsons, and everyone had such a good time that we didn't leave until more than an hour later. A few interesting points from our Q&A:
Parsons -- like everyone we met at XM -- was not interested in bashing the competition, instead pointing out XM's strengths and accomplishments. Parsons is an engineer by training, so it's no wonder he emphasizes that XM controls its technology development through its 30-strong engineering shop in Boca Raton, Fla. XM licenses its technology to chip makers and is paid royalties. We collectively remembered, nodding, the chipset delays at Lucent
By controlling its own tech development, XM can time its product life cycles and tell third-party radio developers exactly where tech roll outs stand. It helps everyone with inventory control, and it allows XM to plan roll outs at optimum times, rather than at the whim of outside developers.
Additionally, the auto market is helping drive XM's rapid growth, where it has the advantage of a factory-installed option and free trial from General Motors
Parsons also addressed something he must be hearing about lately -- insider selling of XM shares. All things being equal, we attach importance to significant insider buying, but less to selling. People have all sorts of reasons to raise cash, from home purchasing to diversification. And it would seem prudent for anyone to unload some shares that had risen 10-fold in a little over a year.
But Parsons explained that the year before he had asked executives to take bonuses in options, rather than cash (times were tight), and they agreed. Now, lately, he had encouraged those executives to "take their bonuses" by selling some shares, if they liked.
With a long career in communications, Parsons can rattle off technologies and various cable and dish companies without missing a beat, explaining simply how XM fits into the overall market. Most revealing, however, was his willingness to admit mistakes. One he cited was raising debt early last year at share prices much lower than today's. But, as he said, you can't know where the market will go. He also candidly spoke about the company's debt, saying, "We have too much for my taste."
In the next breath, he explained how the debt is being paid down, how today's environment makes it possible for XM to buy back debt and retire it on favorable terms -- and it has been doing this, and will continue to. Parsons has financial chops that, as analysts, made us glad he was Chairman. And by the way, he isn't CEO -- that's Hugh Panero, who we also met briefly. The company smartly kept the two positions separate.
Touring the studios
The economics of this business are relatively simple (and lends itself nicely to discounted cash flow models, incidentally). First, obtain the satellite radio license, which XM did in 1997. Pay for, launch, and maintain the satellites; invent, design, and disseminate the receivers; devise and execute the programming.
After that, it's about one thing only: get the subscribers. A large sign overlooking the main office floor reminds everyone that this is Rule #1; and if they don't catch Rule #1, Rule #2 -- of course -- reminds them to see Rule #1. And it's working. CEO Panero projects breakeven results by year end, with 2.8 million subs.
All the technology and vehicle options would not have mattered if the 101 channels (with 20 more coming this year) didn't attract and retain subscribers. The programming is the company's intellectual property, its bread and butter, and -- like Sirius -- there's something for everyone. We saw where it all happens at XM -- from World Zone, to Luna (Latin jazz), from Frank's Place (vocal standards) to Club Hits, and much more.
To put you in the "studio" mood, you pass through hallways where you can stand under hanging cones and -- only there and not an inch outside -- hear an XM station live. We were Maxwell Smarts in the cone of silence: no denying the tech thrill.
Huge renderings of great musicians line the walls, and then we were in cozy, quiet halls, taking in the glassed studios on either side, with their neon-pink "on air" tubes and sleek blue-smoked glass identifiers. We spied in on the DJs, surrounded with their own idiosyncratic visions of their beats -- life-size Elvis cutouts for the '50s station, multitudes of stuffed animals for the XM kids channel; and the '80s station -- what a riot of memorabilia in there.
We spied the pristine performance studio only to learn that we preceded Sarah McLachlan live by a few days. It was enough to make us, starry-eyed for a moment, wonder if we could come back.
Brass tacks
Once analysts, always analysts, so we contrasted the deal XM got on the warehouse with the millions ($80 million to be precise) it spent on its transformation. But it's all business. There's no waste in this workspace, and when you're a media company, it pays to have headquarters that make your stars feel like stars, beyond acoustical brilliance, engineering perfection, and perfect sound quality for listeners. Throughout, XM's home has a certain edgy, clean glow.
We've heard XM for months and love it; it's made us listen to music radio for the first time in years, and now daily. We haven't heard Sirius for comparison, so we need to. For now, we can focus on comparing some numbers.
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|Subscribers (end of '03)
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|Sales (through 9/30/03)
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|$7.9 million
|Operating Loss (through 9/30/03)
|323 m
|312 m
|Cash and Equivalents (9/30/03)
|456 m
|479 m
|Long-term Debt (9/30/03)
|760 m
|259 m
|Share Price (1/8/04)
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|$3.2 billion
|Enterprise Value (EV)
|$4.4 billion
|$2.98 billion
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Both companies need to have operatings losses telescope dramatically in order to maintain cash before reaching break-even. Despite large losses last year, XM aims for break-even by year end. The picture at Sirius is more cloudy. Meanwhile, valuations are steep at both stocks. Investors are foregoing any margin of safety, instead optimistically betting that satellite radio will -- within five years, apparently -- sport some 10 million customers.
As investors, we know there are no more rabid groups of followers than those behind XM and Sirius -- they are as partisan as Apple
Meanwhile, we'll keep listenin' to satellite radio. We've heard the future, and it sounds great.
Jeff Fischer and Tom Jacobs do not hold positions in XM or Sirius at time of publication (the Fool has a disclosure policy). Are XM and Sirius good investments? Waltz over to our XM and Sirius discussion boards, where you'll find strong opinions sung in convincing tones.


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Four Ways To Check the Pulse Of A Workforce
Most employers, and their advisers, probably wish they could peek into the minds of employees to understand what workers are thinking, gain perspective on day-to-day frustrations and use that information to help make employees' lives easier.
These vital insights can inform an employer's ability to help employees feel more empowered, do great work, feel secure and supported in their organizational roles and to build a better company culture.
Taking the pulse of a workforce shouldn't be a guessing game. An informal process of 'throwing ideas against the wall to see what sticks' wastes time, wastes resources and only serves to frustrate employees. There are better ways to understand what makes employees tick.
A good place to start is seeing work from their point of view. A recent ADP study, Fixing the Talent Management Disconnect, shows that there is a gap between how employers and employees 72% of employers believe performance reviews are an important milestone for career development, only 54% of employees agree. Further, only 15% of employees say they have defined development goals, despite a majority who are looking for growth within their current companies.
To read more, check out this byline article by ADP's Aldor H. Delp in Employee Benefit Adviser.


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Imagine this…a warm spring day, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping (or are those shoppers buzzing?!) After taking a stroll through the Country Heritage Museum and learning a few fun facts about the history of agriculture and farming you wander the stalls upon stalls of fabulous antique exhibitors. Maybe you're searching for that perfect piece to finish off a room in your home, a piece that needs a little TLC but is guaranteed to be something magnificent or maybe you're just browsing for that antique/vintage piece that calls out to you! Whatever brings you out to the Milton Antique Expo on June 8th you're guaranteed a great time! Not only will you be surrounded with happy shoppers, sunny skies *hopefully*, classic stories of "my Grandma used to have this exact cookie jar!" but the exhibitors are guaranteed to be the best of the best! Making the trek from all over Ontario and Quebec to bring you the best show with top quality pieces, collectables and gems that are looking for a happy home. The scene is perfect! Shoppers who share the same interest, knowledgeable exhibitors set up on 80 acres of an interactive heritage park…a theme song playing in your head, which really sets the mood. Hang on! That's not in your head…it's in the air! That's right folks, we will have not one, but TWO musical performances at our Antique Expo on June 8.
The Greasemarks will be returning for a second year, playing at various locations during the day. Happy to announce they will be returning on June 8 and will be entertaining periodically throughout the day. When they're not performing, they will be hauling heavy purchases to the purchase pick-up area for loading! Thanks guys!
The Greasemarks have been playing "50's rockabilly raw and young since 2007." http://www.greasemarks.com
Also joining us for live entertainment is folk/roots singer Peter Shaw! An accomplished singer/guitar player with a unique ability to entertain and interact with his audience. Originally from Australia where he spent his youth, Peter has been performing for audiences in Ontario for over 30 years! Peter will be performing from 11:00-2pm in the food court on June 8.


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Sunday, January 29, 2017
Hostage To The Devil
4 comments:
- Jay's Shadow said...
I know what I'm watching tonight.
Demonic possession fascinates me. it amazes me how something of pure evil that we cannot see can just take over one's body.
For those who don't believe in this sort of thing, just pay attention and look around in the world and see what is going on...........
- January 29, 2017 at 9:32 AM
- girl6 said...
ahhhhh, yeah this book.
just added it to our cue on netflix!!!!!...thanks.. : )
such fascinating subject matter. always strange, when i hear people denying the dev's existence or to hear someone driving his existence home. he's here man. always has been & always will be.
God would take his ass back in the fastest second ever. but...he can't be saved tho, because his biggest sin is being SO self reliant & that...is something, he can never return from, cause, he would have to give it up forever & he can't...won't. he would have to want to save himself to be redeemed, he would have to pull a Jesus, become human & then perhaps.....but....nah.
neil gaiman says, hell is something you carry around with you. so, i guess it's different for everyone.
- January 30, 2017 at 11:06 AM
- K.O. said...
I'm intrigued! Looks fascinating. And it's on Netflix! I'm queuing it up.
- January 30, 2017 at 11:44 AM
- girl6 said...
we watched this & LOVED it.
sucha likeable/lovable dude!! he felt like the real deal too. guys like him, give you hope, that there really are still some cool catholics/humna beings out there. this doc reinforced a lot of feelings i have. that..there are witches, demons, supernatural entities, so much unknown out there, all created by ONE higher individual & we're all in this together.
- February 20, 2017 at 11:02 AM


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|National Botanic Garden of Wales, May 2013
Patients come and go, and I have been enjoying hearing their stories and trying to encourage, guide and motivate them to achieve their goals. This idea of the patient owning and managing their chronic condition is not new or novel, but not often expressed. Because we often have lunch together, the team tends to share experiences of clinical situations quite a bit, and the underlying principle is often of the clinician 'treating' or 'managing' the patient, or generally telling or advising them what to do. I am making every effort, and getting increasingly more skilled at the opposite approach: not telling or advising them what to do. This takes an enormous amount of self-restraint on my part, but I think I am getting better at it.
For example, many of the patients I see have other conditions as well as diabetes. There are many different avenues I can follow in my dietary advice: a) general healthier eating (more veg, less saturated fat, lots of fluid, eating breakfast, less salt, oily fish twice a week etc), b) diet to influence blood glucose, c) dietary management of other conditions such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, kidney failure, low calcium, anaemia and so on, and d) weight management - usually weight reduction, but not always. Looking at the patient's medical history and biochemical test results usually gives me an idea about what might ultimately have the greatest benefit on health.
But it is fruitless for me to decide what should be done and then do it. Diabetes is not like a broken bone - once diagnosed, it is not possible for a simple plan for treatment and review to be devised, implemented and followed up. It is a lifelong diagnosis where the majority of management and treatment takes place in the absence of any health professionals, done entirely by the patient. I even wince each time I write 'patient', because I spent a considerable amount of my career insisting that people are people and are not defined by their condition - they are not diabetics, they are people who have diabetes. Someone with diabetes is not ill, and is only defined as a patient when they turn up at the clinic. The rest of the time, they are in charge of their 'illness'. I don't have a better word yet, and would be viewed most oddly if I started to use the words 'client' or 'service user' in the NHS setting. But I digress.
The way it works is this. I invite the person into my room, introduce myself, and then ask either how it's gone since last time, or what's brought them to the clinic on this occasion? The idea is that they choose what we're going to talk about first. Obviously I might have issues that I'd like to raise, but my agenda is secondary.
For example, many people who see me are overweight, obese or morbidly obese. This may be the main 'problem' and if addressed, the majority of their other health conditions might be improved. But many people are happy with what they weigh and how they look, even though they are aware of the health implications. Many more are not happy but have tried many times to change and failed, or had succeeded, lost loads of weight and then put it all back on and more. Many are defeated. There is no point in me listening to their story and then telling them what to do. Nobody wants to be told what to do, especially by someone who only met you ten minutes ago and knows nothing about your life. They've tried over and over again, it didn't work, end of story.
Last week I felt my practising had paid off. An overweight lady was brought to me: "she needs to lose weight." This is often the first barrier - very few choose willingly to see a Dietitian, because they expect to be 'told off'. They know they have a problem, and they know the answer, everybody's told them they need to lose weight, they know they should lose weight but they've tried and failed and they don't see the point in having their noses rubbed in it, or exposing their weakness to a stranger. It's personal, uncomfortable, and emotionally painful.
The lady was happy to talk about her diet, but she didn't see what she could change. She told me about coming from a culture where being overweight is not a problem.
"So, you're happy with the way you are. That's good," I said.
Instead of agreeing with me, she continued to tell me about her diet, what she eats, how much she likes food.
"I get the impression that you don't really want to change anything at the moment. Is that right?" I asked.
Still no agreement. More information about her lifestyle. I must say, her cooking sounded amazing. A bit carb-heavy, but tasty.
"So, you don't feel that your weight is a problem. Would you like to talk about anything else? Do you have any other concerns about your diabetes?"
Again, she didn't really address the question I'd asked, but carried on chatting about her meals and her cooking. I felt like Jeremy Paxman that time he asked the prison chap the same question fourteen times. I just wanted her to agree that we could leave the weight thing alone, and then she could go.
But instead, she suddenly suggested a couple of things she might be able to cut out of her diet. I was genuinely amazed. I've always believed in this approach to consultations, where you get the patient to make the suggestions, but so often they hold back and hold back and eventually I give in. This time I think I was determined not to be directive, and for the first time, it really worked. We agreed on one or two goals, and arranged a follow up.
Whether she returns will perhaps be a test of success, and it's quite possible that she may not actually make the changes she suggested, or achieve the results she hopes for. But I would have suggested different changes, and she definitely wouldn't have taken those on board, and I definitely would never have seen her again. So we'll see.


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Thursday, March 12, 2015
March 15, Lent 4, The Walk to the Cross: The Awful Trophy
Numbers 21:4-9, Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22, Ephesians 2:1-10, John 3:14-21
Our gospel lesson is the second part of the conversation of Jesus and Nicodemus. That conversation comes early in the Gospel of John, at the beginning of Our Lord's three-year campaign. And we can infer that the Lord Jesus can already see the cross in the distance, because already, this early, he talks about the serpent in the wilderness as a figure of himself. According to St. John, the Lord Jesus saw his whole campaign as a long walk to the cross, a three-year Lent.
I'd say that already before his baptism Our Lord had contemplated that story, before his coming out. And I wonder: in those eighteen years of his silence between his bar mitzvah (anachronism warning!) and his baptism, how did that awful story challenge him, and what guidance did it give him, and how did he come to regard that story as prophetic of himself?
When we read the story today, we are put off by the petty vengefulness of God to send those snakes. But when the story was first recorded it was assumed that any god had the right and the privilege to do such things whether humans liked it or not.
This is the kind of story that people raise in objection to the Bible and its God. They don't want that kind of a god. If they want a god at all, they prefer the loving God of Jesus, the God who "so loved the world." And yet the Lord Jesus himself was able to hold together his belief in the God of the serpents and a loving God the Father, and he speaks of the two things together in one speech.
Indeed, he sees his own future in that brazen serpent. Does he expect to be a trophy on a pole? The brazen serpent was a trophy, of an ancient sort. It was not a modern trophy, like the Stanley Cup. If hockey teams got ancient trophies, the winners would skate around the rink lifting up on their sticks the skates and sweaters and helmets of the losers, and, depending on the franchise, even the face-mask of the goalie with his head still in it.
You get it that the body of Jesus lifted up on a cross was a trophy for the Roman soldiers, when that body was identified as of the "King of the Jews". He's not just been killed, like the thieves on either side of him, he's been defeated. And does Jesus think that this is what God wants? What sort of a God is this that Jesus believes in?
On the face of it, your Lenten pilgrimage is about your repentance of your sins, but as I have said, your repentance is not really about your sins but about your discovery of God, this God whom Jesus believed in. This God is not the nice progressive God of Brownstone Brooklyn. This God is both more wonderful and more terrible than that.
So like when you read the news today, and you get indignant and upset, I would say that when God reads the news God doesn't get just indignant and upset, God has "wrath", as St. Paul says. Does God have the right to God's wrath, even if we don't like it that God should have sent the snakes? What is God's wrath directed at, and at whom, and for what reason?
Isn't more at stake for God than for us? How complex and inclusive is God's love? When God so loves the world, how many species does God love, how many landscapes, how many glaciers does God love, and how many young black men and how many coral reefs, how many aboriginals and even young terrorists does God love, not to mention yourself, and your history, and your conscience, and your very body? Consider how much does God's love include and to what extent, and then let's talk about God's wrath.
What Jesus did is remarkable. When he said to himself, I will be that brazen serpent, he faced the wrath of God and he took God to the cross with him. He said to himself, I will be the Son of Man, interceding in heaven for my people. But he also said to himself, I will be God, the God up in heaven who judges the world, but also the God up on a cross; I'm the God who requires it and the God who endures it, the God who lives and the God who is dead on the trophy of humanity.
The Lord Jesus embraced that all, and gave himself to it. And why? He saw the deal that God had offered the Israelites in the desert, and made that same deal universal for humanity. The deal is expressed in all three of our lessons in their own ways: If you look upon him, if you believe in him, if you believe the deal that is being offered you in terms of him, and the relationship behind that offer, then you will be saved, you will not die, you will live. Not because of anything you can boast of, not because of your own victory, but because you have been defeated by his love.
Last week I reminded you that during Lent we pray the confession that "there is no health in us." It takes some complex reasoning to repeat those words with honesty and understanding, and it takes faith to repeat those words with hope and joy. So your walk to the cross during Lent is when you rehearse the steps of that complex faith and reasoning which Our Lord worked out ahead of us, that bundled into the judgment of God is the sign of grace and the promise of love. God does not take away the snakes. God does not take away the darkness. But the light shines in the darkness. You can see the signs of light. The energy of that light is the energy of the love of God.
What do you want from your Christian faith? Do you want to add God to the world as it is, to make the world better? Okay. Do you want to add God to your life as it is? Okay. Do you want better health? Good. But if Jesus is the serpent, it's beyond better health, it's about healing from poison. To add God to your life means yielding your life, arresting it for God to start it up again. To add God to the world means accepting the judgment of God upon the world, which means your dying to the world and the dying of the world to you. Not that God condemns the world. No, God loves the world. God condemns the poison in the world which is the power of the world, to which we've built up tolerance and tell ourselves we are immune to.
What do you want from your Christian faith? If you want success, God offers you rescue.
If you want sympathy, God offers you challenges.
If you want respect, God offers you forgiveness.
If you want fairness, God offers you reconciliation.
If you want honor, God offers you mercy.
If you want spirituality, then Jesus points you to the serpent on the pole, so that you desire the God who is up there on it too.
If you want answers to the problem of God in the world, the answer that God gives you is love, a very deep and ancient and complex love.
Your pilgrimage of Lent is your exploration of this God, who is rich in mercy, who out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ, and raised us up with him, and seated us with him, to show us the immeasurable riches of God's grace.
Copyright © 2015 by Daniel Meeter, all rights reserved.
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The American Red Cross asks everyone to give hope to people in need this holiday season through a donation to the 2013 Red Cross Holiday Campaign.
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The Murkowski campaign is all but claiming victory as Sen. Lisa Murkowski leads Joe Miller by more than 1,700 votes after Monday's review of write-in ballots.
The Division of Elections has now counted 92,164 votes for Murkowski and 90,458 for Miller. Murkowski's number will grow as the state continues to go through write-in ballots today, looking to see what name voters wrote on them.
More than 8,000 write-in ballots remain to be looked at. The trend since counting began last week has been for the Division of Elections to count more than 97 percent of them for Murkowski.
Murkowski campaign manager Kevin Sweeney said he won't be claiming victory until all the votes are counted. But, assuming the trend continues, Sweeney said Miller has to be thinking about giving up. Sweeney said he doesn't see how the math works out for Miller to think it's going to do him any good to keep trying to get the courts to toss out misspelled ballots. It looks like there will be enough perfectly spelled ballots for Murkowski to win, Sweeney said.
"It's hard for me to figure that they would be able to look at these numbers and come up with any reasonable move other than facing the fact that Lisa Murkowski won the election," Sweeney said.
The Miller campaign insists that's not the case. Miller spokesman Randy DeSoto said he still thinks the court challenge could get enough votes thrown out for Miller to win.
"The race is far from over," DeSoto said.
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For some time now, i have had some concerns on the above topic. Catholics claim to be the mother church and therefore having the pope as the vicar of God who can make are mar laws. In this sense, i learnt they changed the day of worship from sabbath in the bible to the contemporary Sunday. however, some protestants (seven day adventisits) claim that the right day of worship is sabbath (saturday), that sunday was a day devoted to worshiping the god of sun in those days. What is the biblical day of worship? listen to this statement from the Roman Catholic "Our Sunday Visitor, Feb. 5, 1950" qouted by charles skinner as "practically everything Protestants regard as essential or importat they have received from the Catholic church. they accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the catholic church made the change. but the Protestant mind does not seem to realise that in observing Sunday, in keeping CHRISTMAS AND EASTER, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church - The Pope". excerpt from "Come out of her, My People" by Charles skinner.
Pls, your honest answer will do a lot helping me.
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"I often give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it." Alice in Wonderland
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Wintry Hell of 2013
2 comments:
- Kathy said...
I've been hearing lots of complaints from family members from Provo to Salt Lake aboiut the cold and snow this Winter. My son said they had ice covering every side walk and street on the BYU campus last week. He said he ate pavement 3 times and the last one was the most spectacular. He fell and slid down into an underground parking garage on his back! He's still black and blue from his little joy ride! My brother-in-law was visiting in S.L. the week before and slipped and fell on the ice. After a painful plane ride back home he ended up in the ER. Yup ...broke his elbow in 2 places. This is why I wonder if I could ever move back to the land of my birth?!? I've lived in the South for so long I don't think I could handle the snow, ice or cold anymore. I may have to leave it to hardier souls like yourself.
- January 29, 2013 at 10:48 PM
This is very creative :) I live in the tropics & have never experienced snow......mayby someday I will :)
- September 26, 2013 at 2:22 AM


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You no longer need to share!
Get your own cup'o'Jesus.
(Though this is more or less Je-juice!)
Isn't it great forgetting the whole point of a ceremony and just making money off the sheep-like believers?
[The penguins] entwined necks, called to each other and mated. They then built a nest together to prepare for an egg. But no egg was forthcoming: Roy and Silo were both male.
[...]Gramzay found an egg from another pair of penguins that was having difficulty hatching it and slipped it into Roy and Silo's nest. Roy and Silo took turns warming the egg with their blubbery underbellies until, after 34 days, a female chick pecked her way into the world. Roy and Silo kept the gray, fuzzy chick warm and regurgitated food into her tiny black beak.
[...]Roy and Silo belong to one of as many as 1,500 species of wild and captive animals that have been observed engaging in homosexual activity. Researchers have seen such same-sex goings-on in both male and female, old and young, and social and solitary creatures and on branches of the evolutionary tree ranging from insects to mammals.
"Animals don't do sexual identity. They just do sex.
"[In humans] the categories of gay and straight are socially constructed," Anderson says.
Back [in the first half of the 1900s], scientists generally considered homosexual acts among animals to be abnormal. In some cases, they "treated" the animals by, say, castrating them or giving them lobotomies.
[Same sex behavior] in 20 Japanese macaques and two baboons occurred largely as a way of making peace with would-be foes. [...] Hamilton observed [...]: "homosexual behavior is of relatively frequent occurrence in the female when she is threatened by another female, but it is rarely manifested in response to sexual hunger." And in males, he penned, "homosexual alliances between mature and immature males may possess a defensive value for immature males, since they insure the assistance of an adult defender in the event of an attack."
"The more homosexuality, the more peaceful the species," asserts Petter Böckman, an academic adviser at the University of Oslo's Museum of Natural History in Norway. "Bonobos are peaceful."
Many animals do it simply "because they want to," Böckman says. "People view animals as robots who behave as their genes say, but animals have feelings, and they react to those feelings."
Stress and the greater availability of same-sex partners may similarly contribute to the practice of homosexual acts among self-described heterosexual humans in environments such as the military, jails and sports teams.
[S]ome experts argue that humans, like some other animals, are naturally bisexual. "We should be calling humans bisexual because this idea of exclusive homosexuality is not accurate of people," Roughgarden says. "Homosexuality is mixed in with heterosexuality across cultures and history."
We have previously described a gene-trap strain, ROSA ß-geo 26, in which expression of the ß-geo reporter appears to be constitutive during embryonic development. I report here successful targeting at the ROSA26 locus and the derivation of a reporter line for monitoring Cre expression. To target the locus, a 5-kb genomic fragment was subcloned in a plasmid vector along with a diphtheria toxin (DTA) expression cassette for negative selection to produce the vector pROSA26-1. A splice acceptor sequence (SA) identical to the one used in the original gene-trap allele, a neo expression cassette flanked by loxP sites, a lacZ gene and a polyadenylation (bpA) sequence were inserted at a unique XbaI site approximately 300-bp 5´ of the original gene-trap integration site. A triple polyadenylation sequence was added to the 3´ end of the neo expression cassette to prevent transcriptional read-through. [...] Heterozygous R26R mice were bred with R26Cre mice, a general deletor mouse line made by targeting Cre to the ROSA26 locus, and embryos were collected at various stages between embryonic day (E) 8 and E16 and stained with X-Gal for lacZ activity. Embryos heterozygous for both R26Cre and R26R alleles displayed ubiquitous blue staining, whereas wild-type or heterozygous R26R embryos did not show any staining.
Kevin Miller, one of the writers for "Expelled" spills the whole guts
of their anti-science agenda at "After the Bar Closes":
"As for being mystified by "my cause," my main interest in this
project is the whole philosophy of science angle. How do we
conceptualize science and its implications? How can we know that we
know anything? The debate between rationalism and empiricism.
Epistemology, that sort of thing. Personally, I see ID as a challenge
not just to Darwinian evolution but to the very foundation of the
scientific enterprise itself. Will we allow non-material causation
into science or won't we?
Most people think this question was settled
decades or centuries ago.
IDers say new evidence in biology and
elsewhere compels us to reconsider our answer.
I find this intriguing,
especially when you bring in philosophers like Michael Polanyi, Alvin
Plantinga, and new discoveries in quantum physics that are essentially
saying the same thing. I'm not talking about supernatural causation--
as in magic. Just non-material causation, such as human consciousness.
Right now, I see many branches of science--particularly evolutionary
biology--as highly rationalistic. Theory-driven rather than evidence
ID seems to be an attempt to call science back to a more
empirical approach--at least according to the rhetoric I've heard from
ID advocates. (I can't tell you how many times I've heard them say,
"Follow the evidence wherever it leads.") So I'm prone to wonder if
all the fireworks over ID are really just the most recent
manifestation of an age-old scientific debate that's been cloaked in
all sorts of modern religious and political agendas. It's just the
latest swing of the rationalist/empiricist pendulum. At least that's
one way of trying to conceptualize it. I could be way off."
It's been a long day.
"When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with science." - Carl Sagan.


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The recipe:
75g vegetable oil - or unsweetened apple puree
Or: Use a silicon cake form and place in the microwave (800w) for 6 minutes. In my experience, not only do you get a quicker cake, but the cake rises about 25% higher in the microwave.
(It's also possible to make an excellent gluten-free version of this cake.)
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Anybody who's taken a look at some of the bread conversations I've had on here will know I'm not a cake maker - bread's my thing.
Whenever anyone asks me if I make cakes I always tell them there isn't time - there's always another bread I haven't made yet!
However, it was the birthday of both my daughter and my son-in-law this week, and there are bound to be plenty of cakes when we meet up tomorrow. And none of them will be vegan.
Apart, that is, from the one I've just made!
I followed this recipe here:
And tweaked it slightly.
It was a bit of a faff, since each step is on a separate page - unless you sign up, which I didn't want to do. And it's in cups, which I've weighed off into gms for the next time I make it - which I will.
166g s/raising flour
30g cocoa powder
198g sugar
1/2 tsp salt
80g sunolive oil
250g water
2 tsps vanilla extract
Stir the dry ingredients, add the wet ingredients, mix together and pour into 2 18cm (7") lined cake tins. (I placed 354g of batter in each tin.)
Bake at 175C for 20 minutes.
Here's the cakes as they came out of the oven:
I shall sandwich the cake with the vegan chocolate spread I made yesterday:
And probably spread a bit on top - just to finish it off!
I decided to forgo the salt and the vanilla: I never use salt in my sweet bread recipes, and I see no place for it here; I couldn't detect any vanilla flavour, but others may.
3 days later. I ate the last remnants of the cake - and it was as moist and lush as when it had just been made. I did think of seeing if it would keep into a 4th day - but who keeps chocolate cake for four days?
(Well, my mother might - she used to extol the virtues of her madeira cake - "It'll keep for a fortnight!" she used to announce to all and sundry. And every time we went home and we were served cake, she felt she had to make good her claim. The damn cake was always well over a week old! In every other respect she was a decent cook. Well, I suppose we all have a chink in our armour!)
3rd November.
After telling my colleagues at my Thursday care home about my cake-making, I was prevailed upon to make one for the residents.
Since we needed a large cake, I doubled up the recipe:
330g s/raising flour
|If you're going to make a cake - may as well make a big one!
|That's Melissa's hand applying the chocolate icing
|The doubled up recipe actually made 2 dozen of these. Thought at first we hadn't put enough batter in each one
|But when they came out of their cases and were iced - the size was just right! OK, the icing's not very neat - but that didn't affect the taste one iota!
I've been making this cake weekly since I first made it - and today I made a chocolate log with it:
|Next time I'll divide the batter between two Swiss roll tins - and then it won't split! To keep it vegan it was spread with jam. I need a vegan filling for next time.
Wanted to make a couple of Yule logs for the family - but I'm far away from my scales, so I did these with the original cup measurements in the link above.
I used a coffee mug to measure with and made enough to fill two Swiss roll tins and make three large cup cakes.
One was filled with sweet chestnut puree (the puree was mixed with some sugar and soya cream) and the other was consumed as it was - everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.
I'm planning to cover the cake with melted chocolate. I'll post a pic when I do.


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July 25, 2008
Take a guess!
Fun pictures from our vacation at a cabin (at Backbone State Park) with extended family. It was so wonderful to spend a week with my parents and my brothers and their families (we missed you this year, sis!)....... just havin' fun and relaxing.
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July 3, 2008
Sweet Kennedy in her halo
Please continue to pray for sweet Kennedy. Her surgery went well and now she moves into the recovery phase. Please pray that her pain can be well managed. Here is a picture of her in her halo.
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July 2, 2008
Kennedy is in surgery today
Kennedy is having surgery today (she's in surgery as I post this) for neck instability often associated with Down syndrome. She will be having a halo placed. PTL that her daddy was able to come home from Afghanistan for her surgery. Please keep her and her family in your prayers. Click on the button to go to her mom's blog and follow Kennedy's progress.
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text: SOUTH BEND - Susan Lynn (Dentzman) Veschak, 45, died Sunday in a traffic accident in Grand Rapids. Survivors include her husband, Robert A.; five daughters, Kara Gelet, Melissa Gelet and Morgan Gelet, Angie and Kathy Veschak; her mother, Trudy Dentzman; two sisters, Karen Cranston and Mary Hammond; and six brothers, Bill, Richard, Paul, James, Michael and David Dentzman. Memorial services will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday in Tews Funeral Home, Homewood, Ill., where friends may call one hour before services.


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Writer/director Tom McCarthy has previously brought us indie gems The Station Agent and The Visitor. Each boasted an incredible cast of character actors in a story that appeared very familiar but actually had something of a twist. With Win Win, he pretty much stays true to form with one major deviation.
Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) is a family man who works as an attorney and a high school wrestling coach to support his family, but it's not enough to keep his practice afloat. So when he learns that he could earn $1,500 a month to become client Leo's (Burt Young) guardian, he takes the money and puts Leo in a home. But things get tricky when Leo's grandson Kyle (Alex Shaffer) pitches up. Mike and his wife Jackie's (Amy Ryan) decision to let him stay pays off when they discover Kyle is a champion wrestler.
The major deviation is that nothing in Win Win goes against your expectations. It's a very pleasant watch that's enjoyably low-key and each member of the cast is fantastic. It's just that a happy resolution is never really in doubt, and none of the characters do anything that you're not expecting.
However, there are more than enough reasons to watch Win Win. Apparently McCarthy wrote the script with specific actors in mind, and they are each of them perfect. Giamatti brings a nice sweetness to the browbeaten Mike, which is just as well as his bad decision early in the film might have derailed a lesser actor. Ryan (The Wire) is predictably superb as caring mother/hot-tempered Jersey girl Jackie, while newcomer Shaffer makes his monotone disaffected teen oddly affecting. Elsewhere, Melanie Lynskey (Up in the Air), Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development) and Bobby Cannavale (The Station Agent) are perfect.
Perhaps where Win Win works best is in its depiction of various everyday crises. Mike can't afford to fix the boiler that might very well explode. His colleague Vig (Tambor) has a stepson who hates him, even though he paid for his LASIK eye surgery. His buddy Terry (Cannavale) reacts badly to his wife leaving him and channels his energy into becoming an assistant coach for Mike's team. While Tambor and Cannavale are laugh-out-loud funny, much of the wit in Win Win is of a much quieter variety. Even though you know where it's going, the film ticks along and you'll find yourself involved. Just don't expect to remember too much about it after you leave the cinema.
It's predictable, but also predictably watchable. An excellent cast and a well-observed script make this non-essential but enjoyable viewing.


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C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs.


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Anonymous has followed through on its threat to release the name of the Ferguson police officer who it claims shot dead teenager Mike Brown on Saturday.
The hacktivist collective threatened to release the name on Wednesday but said it was holding back the name before it confirmed the identity of the police officer with a second source.
However on Thursday morning the group published the name of a Ferguson police department officer it claims shot 18-year-old Mike Brown on Saturday.
The name of the officer was released by the @TheAnonMessage Twitter account but the claims have been denied by the St Louis County Police department.
Joel Currier, a reporter for the St Louis Post has tweeted that the police say the name released by Anonymous is false and that officer is not an officer from Ferguson or St. Louis.
St. Louis Co. Police say the name of the officer Bryan P. Willman released by Anonymous is false. Not a #Ferguson or St. Louis Co. officer.
— joelcurrier (@joelcurrier) August 14, 2014
The spokesperson added that emails and websites associated with the department were offline as a result of a cyber attack but these have now been restored and there were no known penetrations.
The group has added that it will release more information about the officer in the coming hours if the St Louis County police department - which is investigating the shooting - doesn't take action.
The group claims it will release a photo of the officer at 10am local time (4pm GMT) on Thursday, with the officer's address released at 12pm local time and if there is no response it will release a "full dox" at 2pm local time.
The hacktivist collective has also released personal information about St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar on text-sharing website Pastebin including his address, social security number, phone number and date of birth.
The Ferguson police said on Wednesday that it would not reveal the name of the officer who shot the teenager after threats were made against that officer.
Brown was shot dead by a police officer while out walking with a friend on Saturday.
Police claim Brown struck the officer in question and tried to steal his gun. Brown's friend claimed to reporters the officer told them to move on to the footpath before threatening Brown with the gun.
The incident has led to four days and nights of demonstrations on the streets of Ferguson, with police resorting to using tear gas and rubber bullets on Wednesday night.
Hacktivists say they've identified the Ferguson, Missouri law enforcement officer responsible for the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager killed on Saturday following an alleged altercation with the police.
A Twitter account associated with the hacktivist collective Anonymous said on Thursday that they've named the officer who killed Brown, 18, over the weekend, and have posted photographs purported to be of the man.
Law enforcement has thus far been unwilling to publicize the name of the officer involved in the shooting death despite calls from the public and press alike. Hackers and activists affiliated with the internationally-dispersed Anonymous collective have vowed to disclose the cop's identity if officials declined to do so on their own, however, and on Thursday said that Willman is the officer responsible.
"St. Louis County PD claims Bryan Willman doesn't work for them or #Ferguson PD. We'll see about that," TheAnonMessage Twitter account tweeted early Thursday.
Moments later at 11:00 am CST, the same account posted screenshots alleged to have come from Willman's personal Facebook account earlier this week, and outted him as the shooter.
One screenshot consists of a photo of the man alleged to be the officer in which his Facebook friends discuss his new user name on the social media site: "Scooby Willman."
"Yep, nobody will find me with that name!" Scooby Willman wrote in a comment accompanying the picture.
"But the job title says it all. Guessing everyone is forgetting about that," responded a follower.
"You have a good point. All changed!!" replied Willman.
Earlier Thursday, the official Twitter account for the St. Louis County Police Department declined that Willman was an employee of either their office or the Ferguson PD.
Hacktivists involved in the Anonymous campaign known as #OpFerguson told RT's Andrew Blake on Thursday that they would continue to steadily release information about the officer they believe to have killed Brown, and promised to post his address and other personal information later in the day if law enforcement failed to name the officer on their own.
When asked if the collective is confident they've identified the shooter, one Anon answered: "They shouldn't leave anyone to guess. Period."
"The US government misfires and accidentally kills citizens all the time, especially overseas, and no one bats an eye. But if a wrong name is released because THEY refuse to release one? That's cool, because we don't have the data they do," one Anon involved in #OpFerguson told Blake.
Later that morning, Twitter suspended the TheAnonMessage account, just short of when its administrators planned on publishing further details about the alleged officer responsible. By that point, though, Anonymous had already released a fair share of details believed to be linked to Brown's death, including 911 dispatch audio spanning from when he was killed on Saturday until later in the day when police were dispatched in droves to the scene of the crime.
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MOSCOW — Flip-flop defector Vitaly Yurchenko described in detail his ``escape``
from his CIA ``captors`` Thursday during a tense press conference in which U.S. correspondents were called spies.
Yurchenko gave new details of his time in the United States, saying he dined with CIA Director William Casey. He described him as a pill-popping


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As Blockbuster customers are aware, Blockbuster stores are closing at a very rapid rate. Our local Blockbuster store recently closed, and we needed to find a new location… and the store we found just happens to be in close proximity to a new restaurant (or at least, one I had never been aware of): Philly Bilmos! This review discusses two separate visits at this extraordinary deli…
Location: NW Corner of SE 164th Avenue and McGillivray Blvd in Vancouver, WA
Order #1: 8″ Loaded Cheesesteak & TastyKakes
Order #2: 8″ Steamed Pastrami & Swiss (Pictured), Fries, Chocolate Chip Cannoli
What I Think:
I've never been to Philadelphia, but I have heard that it is THE place to go for authentic cheesesteaks (and sub sandwiches which are called "hoagies" on the East coast). But, if the cheesesteaks taste any better in Philadelphia than these at Philly Bilmos – then if I ever do make it to that historic city, I am going to have to try one. I seriously have never tasted a steak sandwich quite as good as this.
My "Loaded" sandwich ($7.50) was piled high with tender, juicy chopped steak, cheese, mushrooms, bell peppers and banana peppers. The steak is so tender and delicious that it seems to melt in my mouth as I bite into the sandwich. The bread was soft and chewy and lent the perfect contrast in textures to the tenderness of the steak and mushrooms, creaminess of the cheese cheese and slight crunch of the bell and banana peppers.
The cheese is so melt-y and creamy on these sandwiches that it becomes more like a sauce than a cheese. Delicious! But these yummy cheesesteaks are NOTHING compared to the Pastrami sandwiches.
But then… I have a long-time love-affair when it comes to Pastrami. My father used to take me to a place called "The Little Pickle" in Southern California, and the memories of those pastrami sandwiches piled high with steaming hot pastrami and cheese and pickles are quite dreamy, and are possibly what started me on my journey as a foodie. A good pastrami sandwich is the first food I can remember loving, and since that time, I have been searching for a pastrami sandwich that rivals those memories… and I think I have finally done that with the Steamed Pastrami and Swiss ($7.75) at Philly Bilmos.
The Pastrami was tender – like fall-apart tender – and loaded with peppery spice. The bread was the same bread used on the cheesesteak (Amoroso Bread) and again provided an excellent texture to the pastrami. NEAR PERFECT, this pastrami sandwich. My one complaint is that the pastrami was just a little too salty. But, it wasn't so salty that I found it off-putting… even with the saltiness, it was still quite spectacular.
The french fries from Philly Bilmos are quite remarkable too. A small order of fries is $1.25 and makes the perfect accompaniment to either sandwich (although now that I've tried the pastrami, it will be difficult for me to order anything else!)
They even offer TastyKakes, another "East Coast" only treat. I must admit these soft, moist cupcakes put Hostess treats to shame and probably shouldn't even be grouped together in the same sentence. Their cannoli with chocolate chip filling are also quite yummy (and just $5.00 for two cannoli) but for my money I think I'd go with the TastyKakes if I want to end my meal with something a little sweet next time.
My Final Thoughts:
If you've longed for a really good pastrami sandwich (or a cheesesteak) but haven't been able to find one here in the Pacific Northwest … search no further. The good stuff is at Philly Bilmos!


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Ada Ao, a cancer and stem cell biologist, and aspiring science communicator writing for Nature Education's SciTable blog, has an interesting post put up today. She cautions that it is a tirade (according to her, of course; pffft!) against a recently-published PLoS Medicine article by Amélie Yavchitz and associates, titled "Misrepresentation of randomized controlled trials in press releases and news coverage: a cohort study" (Yavchitz et al., PLoS Med., 9(9):e1001308, 2012).
A godless science-researcher's personal reflexions on human goodness and fallibilities alike...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Issue of Spin in the Communication of Scientific Research
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Opposition to Animal Research: Who Benefits, Really?
A recent edition of Nature News brought some terribly worrisome news: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the anti-science, anti-knowledge, anti-animal experimentation pressure campaign group based in Norfolk, Virginia, has apparently secured -
... written assurances from the world's two largest air-cargo carriers, FedEx and UPS, that they will not transport mammals for laboratory use. UPS says that it is also planning to further "restrict" an exemption that allows the transport of amphibians, fish, insects and other non-mammals (Nature, 489: 344–5, 20 September 2012).As this Nature News report, as well as the Editorial highlighting this issue (Nature, 489: 336, 20 September 2012), indicates, this particular move is not likely to have too serious an impact on the availability of animals for laboratory research, because FedEx and UPS are ordinarily not involved in the movement of too many animals in any case. However, the significance of this incident is in that it portends a rather disturbing trend.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Language of Empowerment - 'abortion' vs 'choice'
I support and receive monthly newsletters from the Center for Reproductive Rights, an organization that tirelessly works to advance and promote reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right that all governments across the world would be legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfil. This morning's newsletter had a section that made think.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Diabetes and Chronic Inflammation - connecting the dots, Part Deux
In the first post of this two part series, I laid out some facts about Type 2 diabetes which results from insulin resistance, and indicated how non-esterified ('Free') Fatty Acids (FFAs) induce chronic inflammation via engagement of TLR4 and the NF-κB pathway, eventually leading to Insulin resistance - and yet, since FFA doesn't bind TLR4, it's not known how the twain meets. The elegant set of studies described in the Pal at al. paper in the July 29, 2012 issue of Nature Medicine [1] provides evidence for a mechanism hypothesized to be active in lipid-induced insulin resistance, i.e., one that can connect the dots.
Diabetes and Chronic Inflammation - connecting the dots, Part Un
Nature Medicine has recently featured studies dealing with obesity-related insulin resistance which leads to a type of diabetes, called Type 2 diabetes. Of these papers, one by Pal et al. (Nature Medicine, 18(8):1284, August 2012) highlights some specific aspects of the disease, including prospects for future therapeutics. I found it interesting - for various reasons* - enough to spur me to write about diabetes in the context of their observations. I shall make it a 2-part series; in the first post, I would talk a bit about diabetes in general, and follow it up with a review of the main findings of their elegant studies. (Full disclosure: I have parents and grandparents who are/were diabetic.)
Sunday, September 9, 2012
On Indian Immigrants' apparent fondness for US GOP
I was born and brought up in India, and I love that country dearly. But for the past 10 odd years, my home has been the United States, where I live my life, work and pay taxes, as well as engage in social processes and participate in communities. One process I cannot - although I personally feel entitled to - participate in, yet, is the political process, because I am not a US Citizen or Permanent Resident. But that hasn't stopped me from taking wholehearted interest in the local and Federal politics and government, because politics and policy affect lives, my life and those of my near and dear ones, and of millions of other people, seen and unseen.
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