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http://www.newyorkdragons.com/news/archive.asp?id=1232The New York Dragons will be purchased by a New York-based investment group from current owner Charles Wang this July, pending approval by the Arena Football League Board of Directors. Financial details of the pending acquisition were not disclosed.
The purchasing group plans to invest in the franchise and to enhance the experience for fans and to broaden the franchise's appeal across the New York metropolitan area.
"We are deeply committed to this franchise. Our goal is to build a successful franchise and a winning tradition," stated Steven Silva, the Long Island native who serves as the managing member of the investment group.
"We're thrilled to be working with the New York Dragons. This is a life-long dream, to be part of a major sports franchise right here in New York," Mr. Silva stated. "We're looking forward to approval by the AFL Board and to getting started in making this the most successful franchise it can be.
Mr. Silva has spoken with New York Dragons Coach Weylan Harding and quarterback Aaron Garcia about the group's plans to build the franchise.
"I'm very excited about the plans to take this franchise to the next level," stated Coach Harding. "The new ownership group shares my enthusiasm for this team and this sport, and I'm looking forward to seeing more New York sports fans getting involved in New York Dragons football."
The team, which started out as the Des Moines, Iowa Barnstormers, was acquired in 2000 by a group led by Mr. Wang and relocated to New York, where they began playing as the New York Dragons at the Nassau Coliseum in 2001. The team will continue to play at the Nassau Coliseum under the new ownership.
The New York Dragons have won three Eastern Division Championships. They have played in the AFL's National Conference playoffs in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2008.
i'm very happy. wang sucks. maybe they'll change the logo. i hate sparky the dragon


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Lost Girl Found
published by Groundwood Books
For Poni, life in her small village in southern Sudan is simple and complicated at the same time. Stay in school. Beat up any boy who tries to show attention. Watch out for the dangers in the river. But then the war comes. When soldiers arrive in her village, and bombs begin to rain from the sky, there is only one thing for Poni to do. Run for her life. Though many of the villagers do not escape, she does. An unknown man carries her across the river, and then she is walking & a long, dusty trek across the African countryside with thousands of refugees. Along the way, many die from starvation, land mines, wild animals, and despair, but Poni does not, driven by the sheer will to survive and the hope that she can make it to the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, and one day be reunited with her family. Even more than the dramatic events of the story, it is Poni's frank and single-minded personality that carries this novel. In a heartbreaking final twist, she finds her mother just as she is about to leave for the U.S., and must make the hardest decision of all.
Leah Bassoff and Laura Deluca are the authors of Lost Girl Found (Groundwood Books.) Leah Bassoff is currently a middle school English teacher in Denver. She lives with her husband and two children.

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Fox Rothschild Opens New Office In ChicagoApril 17, 2015 – In The News
Fox Rothschild was featured in the Law360 article, "Fox Rothschild Opens New Office In Chicago." Full text can be found in the April 17, 2015, issue, but a synopsis is noted below.
Fox Rothschild expanded to 21 offices nationwide with the opening of a new office with four attorneys in Chicago. This is Fox's first office in the Midwest, and will be run under Office Managing Partner Donna B. More.
Regarding the new office, the Fox's Firmwide Managing Partner Mark Silow commented, "We have long maintained an interest in having an office in Chicago and a broader presence in the Midwest."
He continued, "Donna and Bill — who are renowned for their corporate, gaming law and litigation knowledge — are a superb addition to our nationally known practices and will immensely bolster our firm capabilities and services in these areas to clients in Illinois and throughout the country."
The firm said that the new attorneys were added by its gaming practice chair in order to build upon its gaming practice area that is "internationally recognized." Fox has been at the forefront of online gaming in the U.S. and was involved in gaming-related litigation before gaming control agencies, according to the firm.
"As the gaming market expands and the needs of our clients evolve, joining a firm like Fox Rothschild, with a national presence and full service scope, was the best fit for our clients," said Donna B. More. "Fox has well-established and well-regarded gaming, litigation, corporate and real estate practices, and we are thrilled about the resources that this move brings to our team. We look forward to bringing the Fox name and brand to Chicago."
More was the Illinois Gaming Board's first chief legal counsel, a former assistant U.S. attorney and a former state's attorney. She was also involved in the legalization of gaming in Illinois.
The firm stated, "This firsthand knowledge enables Donna to provide extensive insight and counsel to companies regarding licensing, compliance, investigations and commercial disputes."


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Humour Quotes (103 quotes)
...the genes almost always accurately reproduce. If they don't, you get one of the following results: One, monsters—that is, grossly malformed babies resulting from genetic mistakes. Years ago most monsters died, but now many can be saved. This has made possible the National Football League.
A graduate with a science degree asks: 'Why does it work?'
A graduate with an engineering degree asks: 'How does it work?'
A graduate with an accounting degree asks: 'How much will it cost?'
A graduate with an arts degree asks: 'Do you want fries with that?'
A graduate with an engineering degree asks: 'How does it work?'
A graduate with an accounting degree asks: 'How much will it cost?'
A graduate with an arts degree asks: 'Do you want fries with that?'
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
ARCHITECT, n. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.
BAROMETER, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
BOTANY, n. The science of vegetablesthose that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito, ergo sumwhereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito ergo cogito sum'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;' as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
Chemists do have a good sense of humor but lose it when they serve as referees.
Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.
DENTIST, n. A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket
Despite the vision and the far-seeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists felt a peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons, as they were in fact used, dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved insteada circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr. Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career. The memory of Dr. Franklin is justly held in great reverence, particularly in France, where a waxen effigy of him was recently on exhibition, bearing the following touching account of his life and services to science:
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.
Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas jet and give more light than a horse.
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.
Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas jet and give more light than a horse.
EMBALM, v.t. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutæus maximus.
EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones of mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.
GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they containthe quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels.
HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood- pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentimentsa very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feelingtender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibilitythese things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity.
HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.
HOMOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
HOMOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can
Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind.
HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.
HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
If the Humours of the Eye by old Age decay, so as by shrinking to make the Cornea and Coat of the Crystalline Humour grow flatter than before, the Light will not be refracted enough, and for want of a sufficient Refraction will not converge to the bottom of the Eye but to some place beyond it, and by consequence paint in the bottom of the Eye a confused Picture, and according to the Indistinctuess of this Picture the Object will appear confused. This is the reason of the decay of sight in old Men, and shews why their Sight is mended by Spectacles. For those Convex glasses supply the defect of plumpness in the Eye, and by increasing the Refraction make the rays converge sooner, so as to convene distinctly at the bottom of the Eye if the Glass have a due degree of convexity. And the contrary happens in short-sighted Men whose Eyes are too plump. For the Refraction being now too great, the Rays converge and convene in the Eyes before they come at the bottom; and therefore the Picture made in the bottom and the Vision caused thereby will not be distinct, unless the Object be brought so near the Eye as that the place where the converging Rays convene may be removed to the bottom, or that the plumpness of the Eye be taken off and the Refractions diminished by a Concave-glass of a due degree of Concavity, or lastly that by Age the Eye grow flatter till it come to a due Figure: For short-sighted Men see remote Objects best in Old Age, and therefore they are accounted to have the most lasting Eyes.
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership
In human freedom in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauers saying, that a man can do as he will, but not will as he will, has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of the hardships of life, my own and others. This feeling mercifully mitigates the sense of responsibility which so easily becomes paralysing, and it prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it conduces to a view of life in which humour, above all, has its due place.
INSECTIVORA, n.
'See,' cries the chorus of admiring preachers,
'How Providence provides for all His creatures!"'
'His care,' the gnat said, 'even the insects follows: For us
He has provided wrens and swallows.'
[Under pen-name Sempen Railey.]
'See,' cries the chorus of admiring preachers,
'How Providence provides for all His creatures!"'
'His care,' the gnat said, 'even the insects follows: For us
He has provided wrens and swallows.'
[Under pen-name Sempen Railey.]
INVENTOR, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
It is sages and grey-haired philosophers who ought to sit up all night reading Alice in Wonderland in order to study that darkest problem of metaphysics, the borderland between reason and unreason, and the nature of the most erratic of spiritual forces, humour, which eternally dances between the two. That we do find a pleasure in certain long and elaborate stories, in certain complicated and curious forms of diction, which have no intelligible meaning whatever, is not a subject for children to play with; it is a subject for psychologists to go mad over.
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.
[Referring to bullets.]
[Referring to bullets.]
LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name liver, the thing we live with.
LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusionthus:
Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; therefore
Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.
This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.
Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; therefore
Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.
This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.
MAGNET, n. Something acted upon by magnetism.
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet.
The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet.
The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.
MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small. If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remained unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. To an understanding familiar with the relativity of magnitude and distance the spaces and masses of the astronomer would be no more impressive than those of the microscopist. For anything we know to the contrary, the visible universe may be a small part of an atom, with its component ions, floating in the life-fluid (luminiferous ether) of some animal. Possibly the wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of our own blood are overcome with the proper emotion when contemplating the unthinkable distance from one of these to another.
MAMMALIA, n. pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
MOLECULE, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are the molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic. A fourth affirms, with Haeckel, the condensation or precipitation of matter from etherwhose existence is proved by the condensation or precipitation. The present trend of scientific thought is toward the theory of ions. The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion. A fifth theory is held by idiots, but it is doubtful if they know any more about the matter than the others.
MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe, invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.
No anatomist ever discovered a system of organization, calculated to produce pain and disease; or, in explaining the parts of the human body, ever said, this is to irritate; this is to inflame; this duct is to convey the gravel to the kidneys; this gland to secrete the humour which forms the gout: if by chance he come at a part of which he knows not the use, the most he can say is, that it is useless; no one ever suspects that it is put there to incommode, to annoy, or torment.
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for manwho has no gills.
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.
PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing
PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises
PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
PLAGUE, n. Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
PLAN, v. t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientificand without science we are as the snakes and toads.
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him.
PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.
PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. (See LOGIC.)
TELEPHONE, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
The average English author [of mathematical texts] leaves one under the impression that he has made a bargain with his reader to put before him the truth, the greater part of the truth, and nothing but the truth; and that if he has put the facts of his subject into his book, however difficult it may be to unearth them, he has fulfilled his contract with his reader. This is a very much mistaken view, because effective teaching requires a great deal more than a bare recitation of facts, even if these are duly set forth in logical orderas in English books they often are not. The probable difficulties which will occur to the student, the objections which the intelligent student will naturally and necessarily raise to some statement of fact or theorythese things our authors seldom or never notice, and yet a recognition and anticipation of them by the author would be often of priceless value to the student. Again, a touch of humour (strange as the contention may seem) in mathematical works is not only possible with perfect propriety, but very helpful; and I could give instances of this even from the pure mathematics of Salmon and the physics of Clerk Maxwell.
The one who stays in my mind as the ideal man of science is, not Huxley or Tyndall, Hooker or Lubbock, still less my friend, philosopher and guide Herbert Spencer, but Francis Galton, whom I used to observe and listen toI regret to add, without the least reciprocitywith rapt attention. Even to-day. I can conjure up, from memorys misty deep, that tall figure with its attitude of perfect physical and mental poise; the clean-shaven face, the thin, compressed mouth with its enigmatical smile; the long upper lip and firm chin, and, as if presiding over the whole personality of the man, the prominent dark eyebrows from beneath which gleamed, with penetrating humour, contemplative grey eyes. Fascinating to me was Francis Galtons all-embracing but apparently impersonal beneficence. But, to a recent and enthusiastic convert to the scientific method, the most relevant of Galtons many gifts was the unique contribution of three separate and distinct processes of the intellect; a continuous curiosity about, and rapid apprehension of individual facts, whether common or uncommon; the faculty for ingenious trains of reasoning; and, more admirable than either of these, because the talent was wholly beyond my reach, the capacity for correcting and verifying his own hypotheses, by the statistical handling of masses of data, whether collected by himself or supplied by other students of the problem.
The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.
There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them. And these isolated few usually soon lose their zeal for putting things to rights when they have come face to face with human obduracy. Only to a tiny minority is it given to fascinate their generation by subtle humour and grace and to hold the mirror up to it by the impersonal agency of art. To-day I salute with sincere emotion the supreme master of this method, who has delightedand educatedus all.
There is scarce a single Humour in the Body of a Man, or of any other Animal, in which our Glasses do not discover Myriads of living Creatures.
There was a young fellow from Trinity,
Who took the square root of infinity.
But the number of digits,
Gave him the fidgets;
He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
Who took the square root of infinity.
But the number of digits,
Gave him the fidgets;
He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
TZETZE, (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (Mendax interminabilis.)
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.
ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledicta.) The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.
[I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the surgery, but later in the operation, when it was working, there were moments] of loud and raucous humor.
[Commenting after reviewing the video tape of the world's first human implantation of an artificial heart.]
[Commenting after reviewing the video tape of the world's first human implantation of an artificial heart.]


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The spring session of the superior court opened on Monday, when a Dukes County grand jury handed down three indictments: two men were indicted on charges stemming from an alleged assault in Oak Bluffs, and a Vineyard Haven man was indicted on drug charges.
Jeffrey Moore, 43, was indicted on charges of possession to distribute a class A substance (heroin) and possession to distribute a class B substance. He was arrested in February after a Martha's Vineyard Drug Task Force Investigation. According to a police report, police allegedly found 18.5 grams of heroin, 6.5 grams of Suboxone and ten Methadone pills in the Walker Way apartment where Mr. Moore was living.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on April 11.
Patrece L. Petersen, 41, of Edgartown and Darryl Baptiste, 35, of Brooklyn, N.Y., were indicted following an alleged assault earlier this month at the Ritz Cafe in Oak Bluffs.
According to a police report, the two men were at the Ritz Cafe when Mr. Baptiste bumped into the alleged victim, causing the man to drop his drink. An argument later ensued in which Mr. Baptiste allegedly slashed at the victim with a razor and Mr. Petersen allegedly choked the victim and yelled that he was going to kill him.
Police said the man attacked had abrasions and observable lacerations to his body and leather jacket.
Mr. Petersen was arraigned on assault to murder, attempted murder and two counts of assault and battery. Mr. Baptiste was arraigned on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery.


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TEHYA Greyhound Update
No, this is not going to morph into a blog about animal adoption advocacy. (Although, what could be wrong with that??) But for any followers of the blog who read my last post about Tehya, the three-legged greyhound who Bonnie and I are fostering during her recovery from an emergency amputation, I want to keep you informed.
First, it has been a week now and Tehya is making great improvements.
The first few days we had to slip our arms under her body to help lift her up to her feet. She is now able to get up to her feet on her own and walk around by herself. We took the bandage off of her on Wednesday morning and her stitchings have been healing well.
On Saturday – exactly one week after she had her front left leg removed (the surgeon told it is was only connected to her body by a single tendon) – Bon hooked a leash to Tehya's collar and she came out into the front yard and onto the sidewalk with our dogs Alex & Bea for the first time. She was so eager to walk with our two that she didn't want to go back in. She looked so happy that I pulled out my iPhone (thank you KCRA for issuing this to me) and shot this video:
Since this video we have taken Tehya out on the sidewalk with Alex & Bea on progressively longer and longer distances down the street and back. We haven't gone around the block — yet — but I can see that happening some time in the next week.
When we go to take out the leashes for the walk Tehya is now the first one on her feet to get her collar and leash on and has her nose sticking through the back gate ready to head out of the confines of the backyard and into the new world of the neighborhood.
On the short sojourns down the street she wants to be out in front of Alex and Bea, leading the walk. Even though she is compromised, she is still a strong dog and is full of spirit. Alex & Bea are very patient with her, stopping when she wants to stop and sniff — she is very curious — and letting her take the lead dog (the alpha dog) position in front.
Tehya has a long, long way to go yet. But she is showing so much heart and courage. She's going to be a good, good dog.
It's only been just over a week since she had her surgery, but she has shown so much improvement. And in just another week she should get her stitches out!
Unlike other dogs who we have nursed through with broken legs, Tehya no longer has a leg that has to have the bones heal and mend. She just has to have her shoulder heal and build up her strength. Another month from now I can see her out on a private field that we have access to, running with the other dogs — and holding her own.
This evening one of our dear neighbors from down the street, Carol, stopped by the house to get her "Greyhound fix" and Tehya was the first to her feet and to the door, tail wagging, to meet this wonderful new stranger. An excellent sign of recovery for this dog who has to much still to give.
Tehya is going to be a wonderful greyhound. She is on her way to a new — and free — life.


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Native Whey Protein, Real Gold
14 Apr
If you haven't heard of Native Whey Protein or don't know what it is, I'm about reveal what some of our competitors would rather you did not know about.
Native Whey is quite simply superior to conventional whey protein.
Whey Protein is traditionally a by-product of cheese production. You are likely to have heard of "curds and whey" where rennet is added to milk in a large vat to make it curdle, with curds rising to the top of the vat which ends up being made into cheese, the remaining liquid is whey and lactose. This liquid whey is then further processed whereby it is pasteurised and then filtered to remove any excess lactose and fat. This can be achieved through either ultra filtration or cross micro filtration. The resulting product is then spray dried to form whey protein. This is the type of protein that ends up in about 99% of the protein products on the market. We use two EU derived varieties, a Whey Isolate and a whey concentrate, which are both made from Grass Fed Milk. They are widely regarded some of the best types of protein on the market, many believe they represent the gold standard, the best of the best or the benchmark by which all other proteins should be measured. I'm here to tell you that is factually and categorically wrong – Native Whey is a superior product.
The trouble is cheese derived whey undergoes processing that will, by the very nature of making cheese, introduce additional processing that means that a type of casein protein will always end up in the whey along with various unwanted cheese cultures/bacteria. To kill off the cultures the whey will require further heat treatment (pasteurisation) and the additional casein protein called glycomacropeptide (GMP) is left intact in the whey, no attempt is made to remove it. There is nothing wrong with this because GMP has its own set of interesting nutritional qualities. The real issue is the additional heat treatment and use of acids to make the cheese in the first place. By avoiding this heat treatment, you can actually increase the presence of key ingredients. This is where Native Whey comes in, it's made via an entirely different process that is clever and simple to understand.
Real Gold, Native Whey Protein made from pure EU Grass Fed Milk.
Our Native Whey protein is obtained through a very specific process that differs from standard whey protein: the proteins are extracted directly from EU skimmed milk using membrane technologies at low temperature at just 10 degrees C (microfiltration and ultrafiltration). The state of the art low temperature process removes casein, fat and lactose to leave only the purest, most biologically active whey protein.
This process offers the following advantageous characteristics compared to standard whey protein derived from cheese:
- Native Whey Protein is only pasteurised once avoiding unnecessary secondary heat treatments that can denature valuable cystine rich peptides irreversibly.
- Native Whey Protein is not a by product of cheese therefore is not denatured via the introduction of acids and additional processes during the production of cheese
- Native Whey Protein is made in one continuous process. A significant proportion of Standard Whey Protein made today is made from sweet dairy whey that is bought in by whey processors, circumstances that dictate they must pasteurise and denature valuable components of whey via secondary pasteurising. Native Whey Protein avoids this completely.
- Critically Native Whey Protein is up to 240% higher in cystine which is a very fragile peptide and easily damaged by heat (it's comprised of two cysteine molecules joined by a disulphide bridge). Cystine plays an essential role in production of the body's master antioxidant glutathione.
- Native Whey Protein is higher in the branched chain amino acid L-Leucine, scientifically proven to have the most positive effect with regard to stimulating protein synthesis and repair.
- Native Whey Protein has a cleaner taste, because it's not derived from cheese production.
- Native Whey's amino acids composition is closer to the amino acid composition human milk when compared to cheese derived whey.
Those are compelling facts that paint a very clear picture for Native Whey protein being termed Real Gold or the Benchmark, it is superior to normal cheese whey in just about every single respect. The only issue is price and the fact that its made by a handful of dairies in the world in limited amounts. My guess is that some companies will simply never use because of price and other because of political reasons. Politics?? What's that got to do with sports nutrition? well some of the bigger companies in the market are owned by very large dairies that don't, as far as I know, make Native Whey, so its unlikely they would want to approach their rivals to ask for some of their finest Native Whey. Can you imagine Samsung approaching Apple for software? No, neither can I.
At Reflex Nutrition, we are in a unique position being both a manufacturer and being independent, we pick and choose the best without interference or pressure from our board members. We have free rein to make the best of the best, REAL GOLD!
I'm sure many of you know that Native Whey does indeed feature in many of our supplements, but none yet use it exclusively. Watch this space because that's about to change.


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Podcast - Grace Life
About This Show
"a place to believe, be loved & belong..." GLC is a Christ-centered, Spirit-filled, Grace-based, Presence-driven, Love-focused, Family-oriented body of believers. We exist to encourage people to realize their identity as the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! We endeavor to share the Good News of Jesus Christ to the lost so they are compelled to surrender to Him and repent! Our message is the Gospel. Our methods are rooted in His love! Our motto is: "To believe, Be loved & Belong." A BRIEF HISTORY Pastors Jamie & Lisa Wright founded Grace Life in December 2012 and thereafter held monthly Bible studies called Grace Gatherings in various locations. In February 2014, they held their first Sunday service in Revival Worship Center, a ministry training facility of Wright Way Ministries under the direction of Pastor Dr. James Wright Jr. in Culloden, WV. A year later, through the generosity of WWM and its partners, the church property was gifted to this new and growing church. In September 2015, it became officially known as Grace Life Church. At Grace Life, it's not about religion; it's about relationship. We believe church should be a place where you are not judged, but loved. It should be a place where you're not given a bunch of rules and traditions but hope and encouragement. At Grace Life, you're free to sing, shout, dance, or sit quietly and enjoy the worship and the service. Got kids? Not a problem. Our trained professionals offer children's classes geared toward having fun while learning. We're here for you and to help you live an abundant life through Jesus Christ. Come visit our WV Church and experience love, joy and kindness that's not of this world.Read more »